help with mod rewrite rule design

[tarmo]

I am about to convert my static site to CMS. All images are going to be moved to /owt/ subdirectory.

The question is how to 301 redirect my old images (only images) urls to new locations.

Example:
old url: [mysite.com...]
new url: [mysite.com...]

I have tried the following rule, but it starts to loop.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*.jpg) [mysite.com...] [r=301,L]

Can anyone help me with this trivial(?) rule?

Thank you

[jdMorgan]

You'll need to exclude requests for images in the /owt/ subdirectory, since otherwise, those requests will also match your rule, thus causing your loop:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !owt/
RewriteRule ^(.*\.jpg)$ http://www.example.com/owt/$1 [R=301,L]

Jim

[edited by: jdMorgan at 4:52 pm (utc) on Aug. 10, 2006]

[tarmo]

Thank you.