: Can Apache serve resources recursively if there's a 404 in the current directory? Is there a possibility to serve resources hosted with Apache recursively across the directory hierarchy, using

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Is there a possibility to serve resources hosted with Apache recursively across the directory hierarchy, using mod_rewrite or the like?

Example#1:

A server document css/php/html/... refers to the resource image.png at /doc/root/dir1/dir2/dir3/image.png (requested with example.com/dir1/dir2/dir3/image.png) in the current directory. Apache serves the requested document but looks at dir2/ if it 404s in dir3/, then at dir1/ if it 404s in dir2/, etc...

I am trying to recreate Zope's ability to serve content that is higher up in the directory tree if it isn't available at the current path.

The idea is to create satellite pages further down the tree that make use of content remaining the same across all pages but that can be overridden if need be.

Example#2:

3 sites under the same domain at example.com/sites/site[1..3]/, all pages refer to header.png in the current directory. For sites 1 and 2 example.com/sites/site[1 2]/header.png does not exist, but example.com/sites/header.png does - so serve this in place. For site 3 example.com/sites/site3/header.png exists, so Apache serves it as usual, ignoring header.png further up in the tree.

However, if example.com/sites/header.png does not exist, also check example.com/header.png and serve it in place if it exists. Only return a 404 if this doesn't exist either.

Caveat: header.png is just an example and it should work for all resources, be they CSS, PHP or other content and as far down the directory tree as DocumentRoot.

Can this be done, and if yes, how?

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