On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Borden Rhodes <jrvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you for your response, Tom, > > You are correct in that I don't expect the server to alter the HTML > output. I want to tell the server to fetch a file at an arbitrary path > if it receives a request for an absolute URL. So, for example, say I > have <img src="/example/path" />, I want to use a a rule in an > .htaccess file to fetch the file at an arbitrary path, say > "/prefix/example/path" or "prefix.url/example/path", etc. I do not > want to change the global server settings, VirtualHost settings and/or > raw web pages. Alternately, I want to be able to have a page with <a > href="/example/path">link</a> and, when a user clicks on "link", be > directed to an arbitrary location. > > I forget that "//" denoted a protocol-independent URL, so thank you > for telling me. > > Again, I can use rewrite rules to rewrite relative and > protocol-independent URLs and get the file I want. However, even with > error logging turned up to the trace8 level, I cannot see absolute > URLs going into the rewrite rules in my .htaccess file. All I see, > from access.log, is the server trying to fetch the file from the > absolute URL (as you indicated in point 3 in your response) and > returning a 404 error because there is no file there (which is why I > want to rewrite it). > > I hope that's clearer. > I can't really make head or tail of this, apart from "I want to rewrite URLs". It would be easier if you showed your docroot, your actual URLs and what file/URL you want requests for those URLs to be rewritten to. Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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