Happy New Year, all!
Perhaps phrasing my question using this demonstration will make my problem
clearer:
I set up a dummy website on my server under a "dummy" folder. Therefore, from
Firefox, to the dummy, I go to "http://localhost/dummy/";. dummy/index.html
says:
# Begin index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Dummy</title>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<img src="http://localhost/dummy/images/bowler.jpeg";
alt="http://localhost/dummy/images/bowler.jpeg"; /><br />
<img src="images/bowler.jpeg" alt="images/bowler.jpeg" /><br />
<img src="/images/bowler.jpeg" alt="/images/bowler.jpeg" /><br />
</p>
</body>
</html>
# End index.html
dummy/images/bowler.jpeg exists and is a picture of my favourite hat.
I also have dummy/.htaccess :
# Begin .htaccess
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /images/bowler.jpeg images/bowler.jpeg
# Begin .htaccess
So, I point Firefox to http://localhost/dummy/ and I get a page with two
bowlers followed by the text "/images/bowler.jpeg". I cranked LogLevel to
trace8 and put its output here: http://pastebin.com/ZnFBvzrA .
I notice in the log that httpd passes the requests for the first two images
through RewriteRule in the .htaccess file. However, the call to fetch
/images/bowler.jpeg *doesn't* go through the RewriteRule, but instead (line 50
in the log) goes straight through protocol.c and, predictably, fails. This
raises three questions:
1) Why is the absolute path *not* being passed through a rewrite rule but the
other two requests are?
2) Can I change this behaviour from an .htaccess file?
3) If so, how?
With thanks,
Borden
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