On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Gary Smith <Gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rich, > > The rewrite below is exactly what I want to do. Thanks. > > > > From: Rich Bowen [rbowen@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:09 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: rewrite question > > > > > On Apr 6, 2009, at 14:32, Gary Smith wrote: > > > We have a web site that is being pounded pretty hard. The web site has lots of graphics and our bandwidth is being killed. We have a dedicated server at another location where we get more bandwidth cheaper (but the overall processing sucks so it can't push the full site). > > We would like to rewrite all gif/png/jpegs for www.domain.com and domain.com to go to images.domain.com. Basically we have rsynced the content to the second domain and until we can tweak the thousands of HTML pages we want to just redirect. > > Anyway have a working rule handy for doing this. I know we will still take a bandwidth hit but like I said, this is just a work around for now. > > > > > Assuming you have sensible URIs, you can: > > > ProxyPass /images http://images.domain.com/images > > > If not, then you can: > > > RewriteEngine On > RewriteRule (.*\.(jpg|png|gif))$ http://images.domain.com$1 [R,NC] > Proxy won't help you...in fact it will kill your bandwidth even worse because you're still serving up all the same content, plus you have to fetch it from the other server. The rewrite rules the [R] flag is the correct approach. Also, consider using a permanent redirect like [R=301] if it will in fact be a permanent set up. -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: http://pgp.mit.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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