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Displaying a .gif instead of a .jpg

using .htaccess

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Hi guys,

I am trying to display a .gif instead of a .jpg using htaccess. I have added the following to both the root folder and my images folder but it doesn't seem to work:


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^foo.jpg 
RewriteRule ^images/foo.jpg$ /images/foo.gif [L]

Any help greatly appreciated.

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topr8 is a WebmasterWorld Top Contributor of All Time

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surely the client browser still thinks it's a jpg? and thus won't render it anyway

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@topr8 probably the reason why then. Interestingly enough a 301 redirect seems to have done the trick. Thanks.

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g1smd is a WebmasterWorld Top Contributor of All Time

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A 301 redirect tells the browser to fetch a new URL.

That new URL will include the correct extension.

An internal rewrite cannot do that; imagine asking for an HTML page and having an Excel spreadsheet file returned for that

/filename.html

URL request.

le_gber

12:15 pm on Sept 14, 2010 (gmt 0)

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@g1smd - thanks for the clarification, guess I need to read up on Apache config ;)

jdMorgan

10:59 pm on Sept 14, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Assuming that you also have the Options and RewriteEngine directives required to enable mod_rewrite, the only problem with that code in the unnecessary RewriteCond, that is in fact interfering with its function...

Jim