Pardon me for answering a question with a question, but is it possible
to just move the directory that you're pointing to to remove this confusion?
That is, I assume that the URL /user1 is Aliased to /home/user1/
somewhere in your configuration. Can you alias it to /home/user1/assets
instead and eliminate the middle-man?
--Rich
On 08/13/2015 11:33 AM, Rose, John B wrote:
Hello
We are trying to create a RewriteRule that will allow us to drop a
component of the actual URL, and still reference the content deeper in
the directory structure for any number of subdirectories to that dropped
component of the URL.
*
*
For example let's say the content for each account is in ….
/home/user1/assets/images
/home/user1/assets/images/houses
/home/user1/assets/images/cars
/home/user1/assets/someotherdirectory/
/home/user2/assets/images
/home/user2/assets/images/pets
/home/user2/assets/anotherdirectory
/home/user2/assets/anotherdirectory/yetanotherdirectory
Etc.
*We want web developers to be able to reference that content WITHOUT the
"assets" component in the URL*
As in …
http://abc.com/user1/images/houses/1.jpg
http://abc.com/user2/anotherdirectory/yetanotherdirectory/test.js
Etc.
We seem to be able to do this if we explicitly name the directories
involved …
The image is in /home/user1/assets/image but we want to reference it
with /user1/image.
It worked with this:
...
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^user1/image(/.*|)$ /home/user1/assets/image/$1 [L]...
...
But we need to make that more generic, there may be large number of user
areas with various subdirectories with content. We would like to be able
to have one rule, or set of rules that we can apply to each user area
without any edits needed by them.
We tried this ….
We want it to work regardless of what's after the /assets", it won't
always be "/images", it might be /js, /css or whatever...
We tried the following, unsuccessfully:
...
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^user1/([a-z0-9]+)/(.*|)$ /home/user1/assets/$1/$2 [L]
...
We tried to match image/someotherdirectory/anotherdirectory directories
using ([a-z0-9]+) and set it to $1.
This rewrite rule passed an htaccess tester we found online but failed
on real apache. I realize that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Thanks
--
Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
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