.htaccess - How to change image path using htaccess?

Question

I'm fixing this joomla site. It uses joomla 1.7 language filter so it adds post fixes to the url. So when i view an artcle with images, image is not displaying. I tried htaccess rewrite rules. But it didn't work for me... this is what i get when i copy image url.

http://domain.com/en/images/myimage.png

But when I check the code its images/myimage.png . If i edit code to /images/myimage.png it works.

Tthis is what i try to do with htaccess too, to add a "/". Since it didn't work i guess i have to change whole url. I don't have much knowledge in rewriting. Can you guys help me please?

Answer 1

Give this a go in your .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^.*/images/(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/images/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

This will rewrite your /en/images/... requests to /images/...

Note, this could have unexpected consequences for other URLs. I would suggest properly testing this on your own application.