Thank you for your response. Indeed, I stumbled upon that .htaccess rule in my reading. Even if the prefix was stripped, shouldn't the modified link still have appeared in the matching cascade? I carefully reviewed error.log, which didn't even show the prefix getting stripped from the /links. Also, I understand, if /link shouldn't work, shouldn't the //link example fail as well? My hypothesis is that something else in Apache is intercepting the /links before they even get to the RewriteRules. I don't know where to look, however. With thanks, On 19 November 2013 07:23, Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > RewriteRule in htaccess strips the prefix used to get to the htaccess files > directory. What you compare to will never begin with /. This should have > been traced. > > On Nov 19, 2013 6:06 AM, "Borden Rhodes" <jrvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Good morning, list, >> >> After about 7 hours of struggling with this issue, I can't seem to >> find out how to trace the cause of this issue: >> >> I am trying to rewrite absolute URLs using a .htaccess file on my >> computer being served from localhost. I have succeeded in the >> following: >> Using, say, an HTML file containing the tag <img >> src="//www.example.com/image.png" />, I used "RewriteRule >> ^//(.*example\.com.*) http://$1"; to get Apache to fetch the image; >> Using an HTML file containing the tag <img >> src="www.example.com/image.png">, I used "RewriteRule >> ^(.*example\.com.*) http://$1"; to get Apache to fetch the image; >> >> However, using an HTML file containing the tag <img >> src="/www.example.com/image.png"> and "RewriteRule >> ^/(.*example\.com.*) http://$1";, the webpage does not show the image. >> Further, turning the LogLevel up to trace8 and picking through >> error.log only shows that Apache failed to fetch the image from my >> file system (that is, /home/borden/www.example...) and didn't even >> pass the URL to the RewriteRule. >> >> Could someone explain why absolute URLs (which is what I'm simulating >> here) aren't getting caught by RewriteRule? The real problem I'm >> trying to solve involves needing to play with Drupal in a subdirectory >> of my localhost machine without changing any of the links. Therefore, >> suggestions to "rewrite the <img> tags" won't help. I ran the example >> from a simple website I set up in a folder on my server, not the >> Drupal installation. >> >> With thanks, >> >> Borden Rhodes >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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