Images on subdomain?

[wwfc_barmy_army]

Hello.

 

Not really sure which section this belongs in but;

 

I have a domain and subdomain, lets say, mydomain.com and mysub.mydomain.com.

 

Mydomain.com has a fully working website, images in a folder called images. I want the same layout on my subdomain, I can link the css and the javascript using the file path, eg ../css/mycss.css, but obviously i can't do the same with the images because of the way the browser gets them and it looks in mysub.mydomain.com.

 

Instead of copying over the images folder, or giving it a full domain path in the image link (eg. <img src="http://mydomain.com/images/myimage.jpg">) is there a way of setting the image paths to default to the main domain directory? Htaccess maybe?

 

Thanks.

[cags]

Sorry, but what was the reason you can't use "../images/myimage.jpg"?

[wwfc_barmy_army]

If i use ../images/image.jpg on the subdomain it looks at mysub.mydomain.com/images/image.jpg, isn't it because of how the browser looks at it?

[cags]

To my knowledge a browser will always parse a URL in the same manner, regardless of whether it is a href attribute, src attribute or link attribute. If the css and javascript files work with this pattern I would have thought the same method would work with an image. Having said this I don't have a sub domain to test it with. I'm guessing it will depend greatly on how the sub domain is implemented.

[ignace]

Why don't you just put all images into images.domain.com? And link to them using:

 

http://images.domain.com/image.jpg

[trq]

You could make aliases to your images, css and javascript within your subdomains vhost configuration if you have access.

 

Alias /css ../css
Alias /images ../images
Alias /js ../js

[haku]

I personally think that Ignace had a good solution for a couple of reasons. The first is that it solves the problem, though it will involve a little more coding. The second is that because the images are on a separate domain (subdomains are considered separate from the main domain), cookies should not be sent along with the request for the images, meaning that it should increase download speeds for the site a little. And the last is that browsers will only request two items from a single domain at one time, but can request two items from each domain all at the same time. So if your images are coming from a separate domain to the rest of you elements, it should speed up download times as more items can download concurrently.