Changing file extensions with ModRewrite ?

Hi there,

I need a solution to a ModRewrite problem I have. In its simplest form it will be a file extension rewrite.

Example:

I need to change the extensions of a great many files from PDF to XML. These files life in subdirectories under the following tree:

http://www.mydomain.com/data/documents/12x456f/doc1.pdf

There are hundreds of unique directories under /data/documents/

I want to avoid having a ModRewrite for every /data/documents/???????/ directory. I want the /???????/ part to be a variable that is passed on to the rewritten URL so that the file extension is re-written to be:

http://www.mydomain.com/data/documents/12x456f/doc1.xml

And so forth for every instance of:

http://www.mydomain.com/data/documents/???????/doc1.xml

Any help in accomplishing this will be much appreciated.

Kind regards

Mudder

 

Maybe something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^data/documents/([^/]+)/doc1.pdf$ /data/documents/$1/doc1.xml [L]

Code (markup):

or in the case your filename is also an variable then you should try something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^data/documents/([^/]+)/([^/]+).pdf$ /data/documents/$1/$2.xml [L]

Code (markup):

 

Thank you. Your example works perfectly. I appreciate the assistance.