htaccess redirect url to different folder

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I have all the photos of my website located in /var/www/vhosts/myvps.ovh.net/sitename/uploads/, and my site is located in /var/www/vhosts/myvps.ovh.net/httpdocs, sitename and httpdocs are located on the same level. When a user looks for some photos I want to look into /sitename/uploads and not /httpdocs/uploads, my htaccess file is located in httpdocs/.htaccess. I tryied using RewriteRule like this:

RewriteRule ^/var/www/vhosts/myvps.ovh.net/sitename/uploads/(.*)/$ uploads/$1 [QSA]

but nothing changed, I've been trying different RewriteRules for a while now and I can't figure out one that should work.
Any Ideas? thanks

Apache cannot load content from outside DocumentRoot and here /sitename/ is outside DocumentRoot — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 15:24
The correct way to do this is to redirect your image requests to a script then have the script serve the files. See my answer here for an example: stackoverflow.com/questions/34136239/… — I wrestled a bear once.
– I wrestled a bear once., Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 15:29

MrWhite · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-07 20:25:32Z

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I would use this directive in my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/myweb.conf:

Alias /upload/ /var/www/vhosts/myvps.ovh.net/sitename/uploads/
<Location /upload>
Require all granted
    SetHandler None
</Location>

Then any web request for http://myweb/upload/file.ext would send the file /var/www/vhosts/myvps.ovh.net/sitename/uploads/file.ext to the browser.

edited Dec 7, 2015 at 20:25

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answered Dec 7, 2015 at 15:42

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Daniele Sassoli Over a year ago

Hi, thanks for your help, unfortunately I'm using plesk(not my decision) and I can't find a way to access teh file you mention, I have only access to /var/www/vhosts/myvps.ovh.net/ subfolders, any suggestions on how to solve this?

gilhad Over a year ago

Sorry, I have root on all my computers, so I can edit anything in /etc and therefore did not solve such problems. If it would not work from .htaccess, I am afraid I cannot help you with this :(

Daniele Sassoli · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-09 21:49:44Z

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I solved my problem adding a RewriteRule to my htaccess like this RewriteRule ^/uploads(.*) /var/www/vhosts/myvps.ovh.net/sitename/uploads/.

answered Dec 9, 2015 at 21:49

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