mod rewrite to directory won't work

[dombrorj]

I've been working on this for several hours, and I know its something you guys can do in about 3 seconds. So hoping you don't mind helping me out here...

 

I have the following code, which is not quite working:

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com
RewriteRule ^vote/(.*)$  wp-content/blogs.dir/2/vote/$1 [L]

 

I'm trying to load the index.html page in mysite.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/vote load by using mysite.com/vote, but I get a 404 - page not found. The only way it sort of works is if I go to mysite.com/vote/index.html. Even then, it doesn't load any of the images (which are stored one level deeper in an 'images' directory: mysite.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/vote).

 

 

 

Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong here?

 

It may be important to note that Wordpress is installed on the root directory.

 

Thanks!

[dombrorj]

Shoot! Sorry, wrong forum. This should be under the Apache forum. Sorry 'bout that, but can still use the help if anyone knows.

[jcbones]

Using mod-rewrite, you may have to provide full URL's to your images, as they pass through the re-writer also, (as data calls from the client's browser).  However, to get it to show with only "mysite.com/vote" you need to change your rule.

 

RewriteRule ^vote/(.*)$  wp-content/blogs.dir/2/vote/$1 [L]

 

The above code is checking for the word "vote" then a slash(/) then any more characters before the end of the string.  This would return valid for "mysite.com/vote/index.html", but not valid for "mysite.com/vote".

 

RewriteRule ^vote$ wp-content/blogs.dir/2/vote/index.html [L]

 

The code above will evaluate true for "mysite.com/vote", but not true for "mysite.com/vote/index.html".

 

You could get it to work both ways with more complex regex patterns, but I'll leave that for the Apache or Regex forums.  As I am no regex guru.

[dombrorj]

Thanks jcbones. That does the trick, without the images. It's a small page, so I'll just move the images to the same directory as index.html, and that should do it.

 

Thanks!