shared folder for different websites

[moonsikbe]

Hello, I'm a complete newbie in linux/apache

I'm making 3 websites (same content in different languages with different domain names) driven from a same mysql database.

I wonder if I can make a single folder for storing images for all 3 sites, somewhere outside of all 3 site root folders.
I guess I'd have to make some httpd.conf changes?

Any easy solutions to that?
Thanks

[g1smd]

Yes, an internal rewrite can take care of that.

You'll need to be very selective as to exactly which URL requests match the pattern that triggers the rewrite.

[moonsikbe]

Thanks, can you be more specific?
Some simple example maybe?

I'm new at url rewritng too, but I'm using it and I understand the basics.

[g1smd]

Let's see your example code, properly commented.

There's been several other threads discussing rewrites today and yesterday, and there are always several every week.

[galaxian]

You could also try setting up a photobucket account and store all the pics there, then link to them all via their http url. Free service and it's easy to use.

[jdMorgan]

Apache mod_alias may prove useful for this application. It's a very good choice when you have access to the server at the config level. See the docs at apache.org.

Jim

[moonsikbe]

@g1smd:
I have no interesting code to show, it's standard upload, crop, resize, imagejpeg (...). I just wanted to get some fast advice like "write this in httpd.conf"

@galaxian
We can't use photobucket, they have some transfer limit... :) We have enough storage and bandwidth on Virtual private server.

@jdMorgan
Thanks, I'll look into mod_alias. I'm a designer, just a few months ago started with php/mysql so it's all rather new and complicated. We have access to the root with Virtual private server.

[moonsikbe]

problem solved with mod_alias. topic can be closed. thanks