Replace multiple directories with one virtual directory

[Merdok]

ok thanks to the help I've had on this forum and Google I've got pretty much everything rewritten on my site now, there is just one more thing that is causing me an issue.

 

I want it so my various modules image directories are hidden and instead point to a virtual directory in the root.

 

eg: if someone types in /articleimages/imagename.jpg  it will point to  /admin/module/module/images/imagename.jpg

 

I've tried to figure it out myself but it is not working at all. Here is my effort:

RewriteRule ^articleimages/?$ /admin/modules/module/images/$1

 

but when I test it, nothing happens. Could someone please tell me what I'm missing?

[MadTechie]

try thus

RewriteRule articleimages/(.*$) /admin/modules/module/images/$1

is /admin/modules/module/images in the public domain ?

 

[Merdok]

Bingo

 

Thank you so much

[MadTechie]

Welcome

you just needed the capture () really

[Merdok]

Right that definately works when called via http but I have a bit of a problem, I use phpThumb to read some images in and if I set the image url to /articleimages/imagename.jpg then I get:

 

/home/sites/digitalfusiondev.me/public_html/articleimages/imagename.jpg does not exist

 

I'm not sure if there is something that can be fixed using mod_rewrite or something that needs changing in phpThumb.

 

Any ideas?

[MadTechie]

as its reading from the server path a rewrite won't apply,

maybe use a symbolic link instead

//1. remove the articleimages folder
symlink('/admin/modules/module/images', 'path-containing-articleimages/articleimages');

[Merdok]

Wow I'd never even heard of symlinks in PHP before

 

Thank you very much, you've no idea how much you've helped me tonight

[MadTechie]

Your very welcome ,

I'm glade I could help