Quick htaccess question
 

Something I've never had to do before...

I need to pop up a standard 'no image available' image on a site whenever an image is broken. It has a huge database and manually digging out broken images to replace them would take hours.

Any ideas?

Use HTACCESS:)

:upsidedow

Quick bump in case anyone knows. Not sure it's even possible though.

I think you would be better off adding code to your script to check for the existence of the image, and replace it as needed. I don't think you can detect the missing image and have it be replaced using mod_rewrite in htaccess without opening the door to a whole bunch of other problems.

There's a way to do it with mod_rewrite. Give me a minute and I'll dig it up for you.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod...ml#RewriteCond

-f' (is regular file)
Treats the TestString as a pathname and tests if it exists and is a regular file.

You will probably find an example of it on this page:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

Thanks I'll give it a go. If not then yep - looks like a script thing which'll keep me busy while I try to get my head back into php mode - it's been a while :)

Fusionx is probably right, but this should work:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule \.jpg$ /path/to/missing.jpg [L]

but be prepared for much more cpu usage

Problem with that is it wants a fairly specific filename and they can vary hugely but thanks for the suggestion. I'll try the first idea in a bit and see how it goes :)

Scrap the reply above. I replied without thinking or looking at the apache docs. It works more than fine and the CPU usage should be OK as it's a non-porn site so traffic is manageable :) Thanks.

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