[ic] rewite rules killed images

DB interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sat Sep 21 15:30:01 2002


I tried using the rewrite rules which I found on the archives (see 
below). It worked well, but all of my images were gone. Does anyone know 
why offhand? I'm new at this rewrite stuff.


> <VirtualHost my.virtual.ip.address>
>     # standard virtual domain stuff goes here
>     ...
>     # set directory path to the cgi-bin directory for this domain
>     # (in this case, it's the same as the system cgi-bin directory
>     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/"
>     # rewrite external URLs to internal pathnames
>     # Note that the [PT] (Pass Thru) flag is used to let the
>     # /cgi-bin/ part of the replacement string to be evaluated by
>     # by the ScriptAlias rule. Alternatively, we could just put
>     # the complete directory path in there, but the former is
>     # more portable.
>     RewriteEngine On
>     # comment out the next two rewrite rules if you want to have
>     # a splash page prior to going to the home page for this catalog
>     # matches on http://myhost.com
>     RewriteRule ^$              /cgi-bin/store/index.html        [PT,L]
>     # matches on http://myhost.com/
>     RewriteRule ^/$             /cgi-bin/store/index.html        [PT,L]
>     # don't change URLs like http://myhost.com/cgi-bin/store/*
>     RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/store/.*       -                       [PT,L]
>     # default rule change http://myhost.com/somepage to
>     # /cgi-bin/store/somepage
>     RewriteRule ^/(.*)          /cgi-bin/store/$1                [PT,L]
> </VirtualHost>


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