Using .htaccess to send people to webpage when trying to access a specific video file

Hi

I have a video file on my server and when people try to access it I want to send them to a specific web page instead.

I tried this in .htaccess but it didn't seem to work:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^videos/2008/my-video.avi$ videos/2008/video.html
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

I also tried some different variations, like:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/videos/2008/my-video.avi.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule . /videos/2008/video.html [L]
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

But that didn't work either...

Do you have any idea what I might be doing wrong?

- Hannes

 

You do not need that "ifmodule" part video for .htaccess file. You should place this in your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^videos/2008/my-video.avi$ /videos/2008/video.html [L]

Code (markup):

That should do the trick.

 

OK, thanks.

Seems like I also had to move this to the top of the .htaccess file because there were a few other RewriteRules there apparently interfering with it when I had it at the bottom...