mod_rewrite - point css/images/js files to specific directory

Question

On my hosted server, the files are located here:

/usr/home/user1/public_html

I have to access the files using something like this: http://server1.example.com/user1/

However, all my files use absolute paths to reference CSS / Images / JS files.

So, my requests for these assets look like this:

Yet, they are not found because they live here:

How do I tell Apache to use this path to look for files. Thanks.

Gumbo · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-28 06:38:17Z

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You could simply strip user1 out of the URL:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /user1/
RewriteRule ^/user1/(.*) /$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule !^/user1/ /user1%{REQUEST_URI} [L]

answered May 28, 2009 at 6:38

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molf · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-27 22:02:09Z

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If your asset directories would be called images, css and javascript, you might use the following in your Apache configuration:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(images|css|javascript)(/.*)$ /user1/$1$2

answered May 27, 2009 at 22:02

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