Redirecting /media/* to /project/media/* and everything else to /dispatch.php

Question

I have the following rewrite rules:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteBase /

  # Route requests to /media/* to /projects/media/*
  RewriteRule ^media/.* - [NC,L]

  # Route all URLs to dispatch.php.
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.php [L]
</IfModule>

This redirects everything to dispatch.php, unless the URL is example.com/media/* in which case it will look for the requested file in ./media/. I would like the URL /media/* to be rewritten to look in project/media/*.

Using the rewrite rule RewriteRule ^media/.* project/media [NC,L] results in everything going to dispatch.php.

Answer 1

You'll need to capture the path and append it. Such as:

RewriteRule ^media/(.*)$ project/media/$1 [NC,L]

Answer 2

Try these rules:

RewriteRule ^media/.* project/$0 [NC,L]
RewriteRule !^project/ dispatch.php [L]

Answer 3

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# Route requests to /media/* to /projects/media/*
RewriteRule ^media/(.*)$ project/media/$1 [L]
# Route all URLs to dispatch.php.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/project/media/.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ maintenance.php [L]

Originally I wanted to use the special %{IS_SUBREQ} variable, but I couldn't get it working.

Answer 4

Solution can be found here.