htaccess redirects

[curtiss]

I am using an htaccess file to redirect users from our old web address to a new web address. Basically, the contents of my htaccess file are as follows:

Redirect 301 /DCHelp http://dchelp.net

However, I am still keeping some images and files on the old server, and would like to be able to use them in my pages.

Is there a way to disable that redirect for one single sub-directory, so that the image tags won't be re-directed? Right now, my images aren't showing up, and I'd like to disable that redirect for the directory in which those files reside.

It is possible for me to move the files if necessary, I'm just curious how someone would go about redirecting everything but a single directory with htaccess.

Thanks.

[Deadeye]

Change the redirect to be a JavaScript redirect on index.html. When someone hits your old URL they will be redirected via the JavaScript on the main page.

This should leave your images and other files intact on that web server

Wesley

[Till]

Curtiss,

you need to use Apache's rewrite rules. Ask your host if "mod_rewrite" is enabled for that.

Also, when you "redirect" using JavaScript, this will "kick off" spiders and so on.

Till

[curtiss]

Yes, mod_rewrite is available on my server.

I tried messing some with the rewrite feature, but I have very little experience with that, so I didn't have much success.

[Till]

Originally Posted by curtiss

Yes, mod_rewrite is available on my server.

I tried messing some with the rewrite feature, but I have very little experience with that, so I didn't have much success.

We use mod_rewrite to create (what's called) searchengine-friendly urls.

Give me an example of how the images moved, and or how you want to "redirect" or "transform" the path, and I'll try to come up with an example for you.

[curtiss]

Well, here's the whole story. I'm not sure how much of this will help you, so I'll try to include all of it:

We purchased a new hosting package, as well as a few more domains. We moved our Perl forums (YaBB 2.1) from http://dcevolution.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl (path to script was basically /mnt/www/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl) to http://dreamzoneboards.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl (path to script is basically /mnt/www/cgi-bin//dreamzoneboards.com//YaBB.pl) (I'm not sure the significance of the double backslashes, but they are in the path). I put an htaccess in /mnt/www/cgi-bin/yabb/ to re-direct all requests of that directory over to http://dreamzoneboards.com/cgi-bin/. Also, since we bought the domain "dreamzoneboards.com" to be specifically for our boards, I put an htaccess file in dreamzoneboards.com's root HTML directory (which would be something like /mnt/www/public_html//dreamzoneboards.com//) that redirects to http://dreamzoneboards.com/cgi-bin/.

The images are contained within http://dcevolution.net/DCHelp/yabb/images/ (let's say the path is /mnt/www/public_html/DCHelp/yabb/images/). There is also a redirect inside http://dcevolution.net/DCHelp which redirects all traffic of that directory over to http://dchelp.net (which is on a different hosting plan than the others).

So, basically, whenever someone attempts to load any of the images from within http://dcevolution.net/DCHelp/, the server now redirects them to http://dchelp.net/. I tried moving my files to http://dreamzoneboards.com/images, and found that the redirect in there also stops the images from loading.

Are you confused yet? I know I am.

[Till]

Originally Posted by curtiss

Are you confused yet? I know I am.

Ok, try something like this on your new server:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule   ^/images/(.*)$        http://yourolddomain/yabb/images/$1 [L]

Assuming you link /images/foo/bar.gif on your "new site", it should [L]ink it to your old domain to http://yourolddomain/yabb/images/foo/bar.gif. I hope!

[Till]

Oh - and if it doesn't work. Check your error_log, it will contain information about what went wrong. If it doesn't, your host needs to enable the rewrite_log.

Also, I am not sure which Apache your host is using, but check the docs:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/

There's an entire section dedicated to the rewrite module.

Cheers,
Till