> -----Original Message----- > From: Weldon Sams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:27 PM > To: users@httpd.apache.org > Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Relative images and css lost after Rewrite > > Hi, I have a question related to losing my styling and images after > performing a Rewrite if anyone has some spare time. > > Here below is my scenario. > > --- > > I have a script located at, > > http://www.example.com/~user/scripts/list.php > > This script accepts a query string of the format, > > sort=foo&gn=ABC&dn=XYZ > > where ABC and XYZ are of the regular expression form [A-Z]* > > I have placed a .htaccess file in /~user/ with the contents, > > ##################### > RewriteBase / > > ### 1st rule: (New URL request form) > ### /~user/list/foo/ABC/XYZ > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} list/(foo)/([A-Z]*)/([A-Z]*)$ > RewriteRule ^.*$ > /~user/scripts/list.php?sort=%1&gn=%2&dn=%3&stoprewrite=1 [L] > > ### 2nd rule: (Request for the old URL format) > ### /~user/scripts/list.php?sort=foo&gn=ABC&dn=XYZ > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} list.php$ > RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} sort=(foo)&gn=([A-Z]*)&dn=([A-Z]*) > RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !stoprewrite > RewriteRule ^.*$ /~user/list/%1/%2/%3? [R,L] > ##################### > > The problem is that I'm losing my CSS styles and images or any links > that are in the HTML which are relative links. Instead of being > relative to /~user/scripts, I supposed they're trying to be relative > to /~user/list/foo/ABC/XYZ > > I'm not sure how to phrase the question, but does anyone have an idea > on how to make my URLs be of the form /~user/list/foo/ABC/XYZ but have > the script run from /~user/scripts and all links in the HTML that is > output be relative to /~user/scripts where it was ran from. > > I'd like to go to > > http://www.example.com/~user/list/foo/ABC/XYZ > > instead of > > http://www.example.com/~user/scripts/list.php?sort=foo&gn=ABC&dn=XYZ > > even though the script will always be located at > /~user/scripts/list.php . > > Thanks for any help, and I'll be glad to rephrase if I'm not so clear,
I think the point you are missing is that it is the *browser* that requests the CSS and images. It does this when it gets the HTML output back from the cgi script. So if it sees, in the HTML page, an <img> tag with src="wibble.png", it will take that URL to be relative to the URL-path of the current page (www.example.com/~user/list/foo/ABC/) so it will request www.example.com/~user/list/foo/ABC/wibble.png. Basically, the browser doesn't know that the apparently static URL was internally rewritten to a CGI script. One solution is to use absolute paths in the tags, eg, <img src="/~user/list/foo/ABC/wibble.png">. Alternatively, move the image and CSS content from the scripts dir to ~user/list/foo/ABC (if it exists). Or, move the stuff to independent directories under the docroot and refer to it using absolute paths, eg src="/images/wibble.png", src="/styles/myStyle.css" etc. Rgds, Owen Boyle Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > Weldon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender urgently and then immediately delete the message and any copies of it from your system. Please also immediately destroy any hardcopies of the message. The sender's company reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their networks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
