How to use .htaccess to rewrite requests from image to PHP script?

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I have a PHP script located at http://sb1.dev.codeanywhere.net/~a70097sb/hc/onlinestatus/image.php that requires two GET variables: ign and style. My .htaccess file is in the same directory as image.php.

I want requests of the form http://sb1.dev.codeanywhere.net/~a70097sb/hc/onlinestatus/{style}/{ign}.png to be rewritten to http://sb1.dev.codeanywhere.net/~a70097sb/hc/onlinestatus/image.php?style={style}&ign={ign}. How do I do this, as I have no experience with mod_rewrite, and wasn't able to get it to work using any of the tutorials I found on Google.

Tried this but it didn't work, I just get a 404 page:

Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([^.]*)/([^.]*)\.png$ image.php?style=$1&ign=$2 [L,NC]

Michael Berkowski · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-10 02:09:16Z

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You're on the right track. The capture pattern ([^/]+) matches everything up to the next /, so you'll need two of those.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.png$ image.php?style=$1&ign=$2 [L,NC]

edited Jul 10, 2012 at 2:09

answered Jul 10, 2012 at 1:59

Michael Berkowski

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HellaMad Over a year ago

Neither answer seems to be working. See my updated question, I included the actual site because I think it might have something to do with the subdomains. I added ~a70097sb/ to the beginning of each of those paths too and it still didn't work.

Michael Berkowski Over a year ago

@DC_ see my update - sorry, I missed the part about your .htaccess being in the image.php directory.

HellaMad Over a year ago

Still isn't working: sb1.dev.codeanywhere.net/~a70097sb/hc/onlinestatus/test/…

Michael Berkowski Over a year ago

@DC_ You need to look in your server's error log to see what the actual 500 error is.

HellaMad Over a year ago

Check it now, should be back to 404. The 500 error was from when I was messing around with it.

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golja · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-10 01:59:19Z

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Try something like that:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mysite\.com [NC]
   RewriteRule ^hc\/onlinestatus\/(.*)\/(.*)\.png /hc/onlinestatus/image.php?style=$1&ign=$2 [NC,L]
</IfModule>

answered Jul 10, 2012 at 1:59

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