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Stewart Robinson
Asked: 2009-05-27 05:14:15 +0800 CST

Apache conf or .htaccess rule to redirect a 404 to another location for a certain file type

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I use subversion and don't want to check out over 1 GB of images onto each developers desktop so how can I just have one central image server and have apache push 404's just from *.jpg for example to this other server

apache-2.2 .htaccess redirect

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  1. This could be done with either rewrite rules, or if you just have a single folder of images, configure Apache as a reverse proxy.

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  2. Best Answer
    RedirectMatch (.*\.(gif|jpe?g|png))$ http://the.central.server/$1
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  3. I agree with just reverse-proxing the image directory, but what's so bad about an extra 2GB (that you subversion overhead)?

    Any attempt to partition the data just leaves more chances for code error.

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