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I am working on a site migration and I need to set up some redirects for image files. Certain image path requests will come in to root-level subdirectories and I need to put /new_directory/ as the first directory for all of them, like so:

Old site request -> new request
website.com/dir1/image.png -> website.com/new_directory/dir2/subdir1/image.gif
website.com/dir2/subdir1/image.gif -> website.com/new_directory/dir2/subdir1/image.gif

Here's what I have so far, but it doesn't appear to be working. What am I missing?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REQUESTURI} (dir1|dir2|dir3)(.+?)(jpg|png|gif|jpeg)    [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REQUESTURI} (dir4|dir5|dir6)(.+?)(jpg|png|gif|jpeg)    [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REQUESTURI} (dir7|dir8|dir9)(.+?)(jpg|png|gif|jpeg)     [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+?)$  /new_directory/$1 [R=301,L]

I have several RewriteCond lines broken up because my actual list of directories is quite long, and I want the rules to fit on one screen width.

user26664
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  • Was there a copy-paste error in the first sample redirection, or is that actually the behavior you want? – Andrew M. Oct 12 '11 at 02:49

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This works for me; make sure that you have RewriteEngine on, otherwise redirects won't be processed. If you want to see whether or not mod_rewrite is being hit at all, use the RewriteLog:

RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 3

If you receive NO output whatsoever after a restart, mod_rewrite hasn't even been enabled.

Additionally, you can simplify your code like so:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/dir[1-9]/.+\./(jpg|png|gif|jpeg)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /new_directory/$1 [R=301,L]

This will do the same as yours, except:

  • It will no longer match /some/other/dir1/image.gif, /dir1/jagif, or /dir1isagif.
  • Redirected URLs will no longer contain double slashes: /new_directory//dir1/image.gif.
  • You no longer need to worry about greedy or non-greedy searches.

Let me know if I misunderstood your question!

Andrew M.
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Go there to test your regexp http://www.quanetic.com/Regex (of course check "ereg" box)

Then here's your optimized (and tested through the previous site) RewriteRule:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REQUESTURI} (dir(1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9))(.*)\.(jpg|png|gif|jpeg)$
RewriteRule (.*)  /new_directory%3\.%4 [R=301,L]

For you information, %3 and %4 are what is extracted from RewriteCond (= you ignore the (.*) in the RewriteRule). Example: with URI "/subrep1/subrep2/mypic.jpg":

Substrings extracted:

%1 = dir1
%2 = 1
%3 = /subrep1/subrep2/mypic
%4 = jpg

Then in the RewriteRule it will be transformed to:

RewriteRule (.*)  /new_directory%3\.%4 [R=301,L]

Thus

/new_directory/subrep1/subrep2/mypic.jpg
Olivier Pons
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