Re: mod_rewrite: absolute paths break rewriting

Ian.H wrote:
> Hi all..
>
> I've been battling away with this issue all day and got nowhere fast. I
> have understanding of mod_rewrite along with regex and the likes and
> already have many in place, but this one's stumped me.
>
> I'm trying to configure a semi-generic rewrite but absolute paths break.
>
> For example:
>
>
> RewriteRule ^/foo/?(.*)$ /path/to/files/$1 [L]
>
>
> naturally works fine for anything in the root 'files' dir in the above
> example, but all links in the page, images and CSS are either missing or
> broken (links break, rest is missing) as these are in the format of
> '/css/styles.css', '/graphics/menu/foobar.png',
> '/graphics/foobarbaz.png', the same as the links such as '/foo.php'.
>
> Now my problem is also that I don't know the depth of the directories in
> all cases as can be seen with the 'graphics' dir mentioned above so
> adding hardcoded depths in the regex isn't going to work.
>
> I've tried various combinations of RewriteRule and RewriteCond, searched
> the net, read Apache's mod_rewrite manual pages until I'm blue in the
> face but can't find a solution to this. I have come across some answers
> in this group but they use a hardcoded dir depth as directory names /
> depths are known, I need to this to work now for any dir depths and
> anything in the future too, so expandability is also a key factor.
>
> The theory is that 1 subdomain will handle requests for multiple web
> site locations stored on the same server. ie:
>
>
> http://subdomain.domain.org/foo/.* -> /web_stuff/foo/.*
> http://subdomain.domain.org/bar/.* -> /web_stuff/bar/.*
>
>
> but as the paths in the HTML use absolute format, it always looks for
> these under the root 'subdomain.domain.org' dir.
>
> Any info / advice / links to RTFM greatly appreciated =)
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian
>
Actually you wan t the relative path,,.. unless you use an alias in apache

Alias /foo/ /real/hard/path/to/files/
Alias /bar/ /real/path/to/other/files/


Pete