Posted by dennis.sprengers on 10/27/07 17:22

* I'm trying to work out some rewrite rules that should do the
following:

case 1: a request to mysite.com:
rewrite http://www.mysite.com/files/sheets.ppt
to http://www.mysite.com/sites/default/files/sheets.ppt

case 1 - n: a request to othersite.com:
rewrite http://www.othersite.com/files/sheets.ppt
to http://www.othersite.com/sites/othersite/files/sheets.ppt

So, if a request comes in to mysite.com, /files/-urls need to be
rewritten do /sites/default/files/sheets/ppt, since mysite is the
default website on the server. Surfing to a file on any other website
that is hosted on the server, needs to be rewritten to /sites/
<name_of_site>/files/sheets.ppt

Sheets.ppt is of course just an example of a file file.

* I first tested my CMS (for which I need these rules) on my own
little server @home, and found these rules to be working OK after
spending hours on forums on apache and mod_rewrite:

# http://localhost/mysite/files/* > /mysite/sites/default/files/*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}-default ^/mysite/.+-(default)$ [NC,OR]
# http://loclahost/<othersite>/files/* > /<othersite>/sites/
<othersite>/files/*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}-default ^(.+)(default)$ [NC,OR]

But now I have no clue on where to begin anymore, since it has been a
long time I researched mod_rewrite. Could somebody help me out? Any
help is appreciated :-)

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