.htaccess redirect

atokatim

I am attempting to redirect one file : /players/style1/skinplayer.swf to my photobucket account so that when that file is called, it will no longer read from my server, it will read from photobucket. I was going to use mod_rewrite, but my hosting company has a limit on how many i can do per hour, so i must do a redirect. Here is my problem....the only way for the swf to work properly is to read from the query line.

Example:

http://www.mysite.com/players/style1/skinplayer.swf?id=1&showplaylist=yes&changeblue=FFFFFF&head=&popout=&bgcolor=

How can i get the eample above to send the same query to the file hosted on PhotoBucket?

Example :

http://www.mysite.com/players/style1/skinplayer.swf?id=1&showplaylist=yes&changeblue=FFFFFF&head=&popout=&bgcolor=

would read as :

http://my.PhotoBucket.com/myfolder/anotherfolder/players/style1/skinplayer.swf?id=1&showplaylist=yes&changeblue=FFFFFF&head=&popout=&bgcolor=

Thanks in advance!

atokatim

anyone?

bradgrafelman

Hmm.. try this?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^players/style1/skinplayer.swf(.*) http://my.photobucket.com/myfolder/anotherfolder/players/style1/skinplayer.swf$1 [R,L]

atokatim

that is my problem....i am only allowed 700 mod_rewite requests per hour. I am using well over 30,000 per hour. Is there a way to do a redirect instead of a rewrite and still pass the query line?

bradgrafelman

Do you have access to mod_alias?

Redirect /players/style1/skinplayer.swf http://my.photobucket.com/myfolder/anotherfolder/players/style1/skinplayer.swf

atokatim

ok...i just tried that, but it is still not passing the extra

?id=1&showplaylist=yes&changeblue=FFFFFF&head=&popout=&bgcolor=

to the player on photobucket... the player shows, but does not load any playlist since it cannot read the query line.

I am stumped :p

bradgrafelman

That's odd... I thought it passed the query string when I tested it. Try this instead:

RedirectMatch ^/players/style1/skinplayer.swf(.*) http://my.photobucket.com/myfolder/anotherfolder/players/style1/skinplayer.swf$1

atokatim

Here is what i put :

RedirectMatch ^{/players/style1/skinplayer.swf(.*)} http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m195/atokatim/skinplayer.swf$1

the player showed, but it still did not get anything from the query line. the player was blank.

atokatim

anyone? I am lost 🙁