.htaccess RewriteRule for image URL

Question

At the moment i have the following .htaccess rewrite rule:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blitz.example.com.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com$
RewriteRule ^([0-9])(         


        

Answer 1

You are trying to capture way to much. First the rewrite engine does not pass the full URL but only the URI, so the name http://blitz.example.com.s3-website-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com will never, ever be captured by any RewriteRule, so forget about it. Second, you capture the name of the image, which seems to be irrelevant in our case.

Judging by the comment, the image is located on a CDN (Amazon S3). If you want to convert http://blitz.example.com.s3-website-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/3478-product_list_default/green-army-combats-type-i.jpg(1) to http://blitz.example.com.s3-website-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/img/p/3/4/7/8/3478-product_list_default.jpg(2): it is a job for the S3 server. Why is this? It's because the HTTP request for (1) will be directly send to the S3 server by the web-browser trying to load the image. So the .htaccess has to be put on the S3 server and mod_rewrite enabled.

On the plus side, your regex is correct : Regex101