Displaying a .gif instead of a .jpg

using .htaccess

[le_gber]

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.

[topr8]

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

[le_gber]

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

[g1smd]

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]

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

[jdMorgan]

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