Happy New Year, all! Perhaps phrasing my question using this demonstration will make my problem clearer:
I set up a dummy website on my server under a "dummy" folder. Therefore, from Firefox, to the dummy, I go to "http://localhost/dummy/";. dummy/index.html says: # Begin index.html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Dummy</title> <meta charset="utf-8"/> </head> <body> <p> <img src="http://localhost/dummy/images/bowler.jpeg"; alt="http://localhost/dummy/images/bowler.jpeg"; /><br /> <img src="images/bowler.jpeg" alt="images/bowler.jpeg" /><br /> <img src="/images/bowler.jpeg" alt="/images/bowler.jpeg" /><br /> </p> </body> </html> # End index.html dummy/images/bowler.jpeg exists and is a picture of my favourite hat. I also have dummy/.htaccess : # Begin .htaccess Options FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule /images/bowler.jpeg images/bowler.jpeg # Begin .htaccess So, I point Firefox to http://localhost/dummy/ and I get a page with two bowlers followed by the text "/images/bowler.jpeg". I cranked LogLevel to trace8 and put its output here: http://pastebin.com/ZnFBvzrA . I notice in the log that httpd passes the requests for the first two images through RewriteRule in the .htaccess file. However, the call to fetch /images/bowler.jpeg *doesn't* go through the RewriteRule, but instead (line 50 in the log) goes straight through protocol.c and, predictably, fails. This raises three questions: 1) Why is the absolute path *not* being passed through a rewrite rule but the other two requests are? 2) Can I change this behaviour from an .htaccess file? 3) If so, how? With thanks, Borden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
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