[users@httpd] Newbie rewrite question regarding absolute URLs

[Neil Freeman <ne...@asa.co.uk>]

I hope someone here can help me. I have the following image:

     http://www.oursite/images/title.gif

Within a page I can refer to this image using an absolute URL as such:

     <img src="/images/title.gif" />

This works fine as long as pages stay where they are. We are in the 
process of changing hosting company at the moment and before our site 
goes live and DNS records are changed, we can only access our site using 
a URL as such:

     http://www.newhost.com/ourcompany/

This subsequently breaks all of our absolute URLs due to the 
'/ourcompany/' section of the URL. Is there any way I can set up Apache 
(using a .htaccess files and mod_rewrite?) so that *all* absolute 
requests are rewritten to include the '/ourcompany' section of the URL? 
So that:

     <img src="/images/title.gif" />

works as if I had actually used the following reference:

     <img src="/ourcompany/images/title.gif" />

Any help or thoughts greatly appreciated.

Neil


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Re: [users@httpd] Newbie rewrite question regarding absolute URLs

[Brian Dessent <br...@dessent.net>]

Neil Freeman wrote:

> This subsequently breaks all of our absolute URLs due to the
> '/ourcompany/' section of the URL. Is there any way I can set up Apache
> (using a .htaccess files and mod_rewrite?) so that *all* absolute
> requests are rewritten to include the '/ourcompany' section of the URL?

Apache does not know a relative URL from an absolute URL.  The browser
always requests the entire/full pathname of the object.  The browser
uses the contents of the html as well as its knowledge of the current
URL to create the request.

However you could try something like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond !^/ourcompany
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /ourcompany$1

If this is in a htaccess file you'll probably need a "RewriteBase /"
assuming you put this in the docroot.

Brian

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