Redirect css (assets) with htaccess

Question

Problem

I want to redirect my css files with htaccess, because the entire path is long.

I try this - index.php:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/styles.css">

And this in my .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^css/(.*)$ /app/view/templates/default/frontend/css/$1 [NC,L]

But, the CSS was not loaded.

GET http://localhost/css/styles.css 404 (Not Found)

Environment: development

Without a virtualhost
Direct Access: http://localhost/test

Folder Structure

Apache Directory (Document Root):

/home/patrick/workspace/ = http://localhost

My "problem" (test) folder

/home/patrick/workspace/test/ = http://localhost/test

Inside /test folder

test folder

CSS path (inside test folder)

/app/view/templates/default/frontend/css/

So, I want:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/styles.css">

And then, redirect (call) the correct url, like that:

/app/themes/default/css/styles.css

I try that but doesn't work:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/css/(.*)$ /app/themes/default/css/$1 [NC,L]

Observations

1) I do not want create a `VirtualHost/Alias` for that URL.

My problem is about:

.htaccess
Sub-folders
RewriteRule

2) I can't put a .htaccess in my DocumentRoot directory of apache

Why? Because is my development machine and I have a lot folders inside root. For example:

blog
projects
portfolio
study
test
work

All items above is a folder in my workspace, and each folder is about different things, so, I don't want to put .htaccess in root, UNLESS it really needed.

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-23 18:40:16Z

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You don't want that leading slash in your rule's pattern. RewriteRule's that are in the htaccess file will have the leading slash stripped off before applying the rule:

RewriteRule ^css/(.*)$ /app/themes/default/css/$1 [NC,L]

answered Mar 23, 2014 at 18:40

Jon Lin

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Patrick Maciel Over a year ago

Works with a VirtualHost, but if I try that in a normal url (without a host): http://localhost/test/index.php doesn't work.

Patrick Maciel Over a year ago

How can I configure that for work in a sub-folder without a host/virtualhost? Like http://localhost/test/index.php?

Jon Lin Over a year ago

@PatrickMaciel Just put the htaccess file in the folder that your page is in (e.g. /test/)

Patrick Maciel Over a year ago

I do that but doesn't work: GET http://localhost/css/styles.css 404 (Not Found)

Jon Lin Over a year ago

@PatrickMaciel if you want to rewrite http://localhost/css/styles.css, then it must go in the document root, since /css/ is off of the root directory.

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Redirect css (assets) with htaccess

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Environment: development

Folder Structure

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1) I do not want create a `VirtualHost/Alias` for that URL.

2) I can't put a .htaccess in my DocumentRoot directory of apache

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