[.htaccess question] How to make .jpg -> .png

I want to make soccer.jpg accessible from soccer.png even though only soccer.jpg excists on the server.

how do i do this ?

 

Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^soccer.png$ /soccer.jpg [L]

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If your .jpg is located in some subfolder, then you will need to include that in the rule also, something like this:

RewriteRule ^subfolder/soccer.png$ /subfolder/soccer.jpg [L]

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I think you will also need to change the type. Look into AddType for apache. This will allow a jpg to be served as a png.

 

Sorry I didn't explain myself clearly enough. I didn't mean for just 1 file (i was just giving an example), I want all the files in the directory that are jpg to be served as png

i tried looking into this before but it didn't seem to work out :/ can u maybe give me the exact code.

 

RewriteRule ^subfolder/(.*)\.png$ /subfolder/$1.jpg [L]

 

Scorpiono, what have I taught you? (.*) is greedy:

RewriteRule ^subfolder/(.*?)\.png$ /subfolder/$1.jpg [L]

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Awww... greedy greedy ya! *shy*

 

how is it greedy? what's the difference? and thanks it works .

 

(.*) will match *everything*
(.*?) will match just what it needs

Jay

 

abcdabc

greedy ab will match ab
non-greedy ab will match abcdab

 

http://exampledepot.com/egs/java.util.regex/Greedy.html

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