[help] Image Redirects To Script Output?

Is there any way to set an htaccess or something that redirects, say, "www.site.com/foo.jpg" to "www.site.com/img.php?img=foo"? I'd like to use an auto-image-generator script I've written, but the board it'd be used on doesn't allow image tags with non-image extensions.

#165965

hm try renaming your .php script to .jpg. does work on some servers.

#165973

Alternatively, you could look at mod_rewrite (assuming you're on Apache)...

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Originally posted by Stevie BM@May 22 2004, 09:12 AM

Alternatively, you could look at mod_rewrite (assuming you're on Apache)...

Excellent, looks like it'll solve this problem and another one for which I'd been using a crude Javascript fix. Thanks!

#166001

Theoretically for IIS6 you only would need to edit the web.config file for the directory in which the behaviour is to be changed, adding something like:

	<httpHandlers>
   <add verb="*" path="*.png" type="System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory" />
	</httpHandlers>

However, I've only been able to get this to work by doing the above and adding a custom mapping in the IIS Configuration console (adding the extension .png and sending it to the aspnet_isapi.dll).

This however would be difficult to do in a hosted environment. If anyone has alternatives, suggestions, or expriences on this (that don't include "switch to apache" or the like) I would also like to hear them.

/nudges Stevie....

#166302

Well, I'm on Apache, so it doesn't really apply..

btw, if anyone wants to see something I cobbled together to test this - http://www.mm3d.wired-hub.net/dynAvs/grad.png

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