Mod rewriten- Get photos from domain B while they are on domain A

Hi

I have shared hosting account
with two subfolders for each domain.

Domain B is test(beta) page where i do new stuff before
i publish it on site A.

Site A and B have same database where i store file names of photo.

I want to access photos that are on site A from domain B

ex.
Get /public_html/A/photos/sample.jpg (http://A.com/photos/sample.jpg)
by entering url
http://B.com/photos/sample.jpg

 

Not sure if this will work in htaccess. If not put it in your Apache conf file.

First try it in htaccess on site B.

Alias /A/photos /home/httpd/siteB/public_html/A/photos

Re's
Rob Whisonant

 

Of course change the path to fit your site details on the server.

Re's
Rob Whisonant

 

Because both domains are hosted on the same server under your account.
You want to grab photo from B, and display it to A. :

1. Create a PHP file (e.g. display.php) in A,
2. Read the file content from B's real path with fopen or any file reading method, store the content in a variable (e.g. $fileContent).
3. Echo the header in display.php with related content type. For example.

   header('Content-type: image/gif');

   PHP:
4. Echo the file content.

   $fileContent

   PHP:

Now when a user opens display.php in A, the B's photo will be displayed.
Now you must make a mod rewrite so that the user opens display.php as display.jpg, display.gif or any alias that you like

If A and B are not hosted in the same server, read the B's photo with cURL.

 

Figured it would help if I explained this in a little more detail.

Alias /A/photos /home/httpd/siteB/public_html/A/photos

The line above assigns an alias to the file path.

So.

http://www.sitename.com/A/photos/image1.jpg
and
http://www.sitename2.com/A/photos/image1.jpg

Are both using the images in folder
/home/httpd/siteB/public_html/A/photos

Re's
Rob Whisonant