: Rewrite img and link paths with htaccess and serve the file from rewritten path? I have a static mockup page, which I want to "customize" by switching a variable used in image-src and link-href

@Jamie184

Posted in: #Htaccess #ModRewrite

I have a static mockup page, which I want to "customize" by switching a variable used in image-src and link-href attributes.

Paths will look like this:

<img src="/some/where/VARIABLE/img/1.jpg" alt="" />
<link rel="some" href="/some/where/VARIABLE/stuff/foo.bar" />


I'm setting a cookie with the VARIABLE value on the preceding page and now want to modfiy the paths accordingly by replacing VARIABLE with the cookie value.

I'm a htaccess newbie. This is what I have (doesn't work):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# get cookie value cookie
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} client=([^;]*)
# rewrite/redirect to correct file
RewriteRule ^/VARIABLE/(.+)$ /%1/ [L]
</IfModule>


So I thought my first line gets the cookie value and stores this in %1. And on the second line I'm filtering VARIABLE, replace it with the cookie value and whatever comes after VARIABLE in .

Thanks for sheeding some light on what I'm doing, doing wrong and if I can do this at all using htaccess.

EDIT:
I'm sort of halfway through, but it's still not working... Mabye someone can apply the finishing touches:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# check for client cookie
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} (?:^|;s*)client=([^;]*)
# check if an image was requested
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$
# exclude these folders
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !some/members/logos

# grab everything before the variable folder and everything afterwards
# replace this with first bracket/cookie_value/second bracket
RewriteRule (^.+)/VARIABLE/(.+)$ /%1/ [L]
</IfModule>


Still can't get it to work, but I think this is the correct way of doing it.

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