htaccess woes

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject: htaccess woes

I have a domain with addon domains: -
root.com
|
|-/images/
|-/addon1/images/
|
|-/addon2/images/

All 3 domains need to access the images.

What I'm trying to achieve is that addon1.com/images/pic.jpg will actually serve the file from root/images/pic.jpg, without doing an external redirect, same for addon2.

Now, as far as I can see, I could do this
a) with a symlink, but then I can't test locally on Windoze.
b) with a script (eg php) to serve the image.
c) copy the images to each folder when they are uploaded.

The current position is that the images in addon1.com pages are sourced from root.com, which I want to get away from. Option (b) is looking favourite at the moment.
I've been trying to do this in htaccess, but it doesn't seem to be possible, unless I convert the addons to parked domains. As far as I am aware, calls to addon1.com bypass the htaccess in root (from looking at rewrite.log)

Anyone got any other ideas?

Please?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

Jim,

The symlink would be the easiest way definitely, do you want me to create that for you?

Andrew

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks Andrew, but no - I need to be able to test locally on windoze, as things are still in a state of flux at the moment.
When it's stable, I might take you up on that though - although I believe I can do it through a php script? Need to check the syntax though...

I'll probably go for a php script to echo the image file for now, since it will work on both platforms. I just thought I'd ask for alternative ideas.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject:

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject:

Thank you!

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