.htaccess Redirects

Question

How do I set up an .htaccess file to redirect requests to another folder on another domain? I don't want the links to break, I just want them to go elsewhere. Say mysite.com/image.jpg would redirect to site2.com/images/image.jpg.

Answer 1

This should help:

Redirect 301 / http://www.example.com/

Answer 2

In .htaccess (in Apache at least):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^images/(.*)$ http://www.yahoo.com/blah/$1 [R=302,L]

Answer 3

Now, what a big surprise, the official documentation has lots of useful examples, including what you are looking for. Yeah, it really sucks that Google is down so often.

Answer 4

You could use mod_rewrite to redirect the request. If you want to redirect everything:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^ http://other.example.com/images%{REQUEST_URI} [L]

And if you just want to redirect requests with a path that end in .jpg:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule \.jpg$ http://other.example.com/images%{REQUEST_URI} [L]