Rewrite rule from directory to subdirectory in same domain

Question

I have the following URL:

http://example.com/media/image.png

This should be redirected to:

http://example.com/media/images/image.png

This rule is only to redirect images in media folder.

But the rule should NOT redirect this kind of URLs:

http://example.com/some_folder/media/image.png

To:

http://example.com/media/images/image.png

How it should be?

I tried things like this:

RewriteRule /media/(.*) /media/images/$1 [R,L]

But I didn't get good results.

Answer 1

You need to anchor your expression, otherwise it will match any URL containing /media/ as opposed to starting with media/

RewriteRule ^media/(.*) /media/images/$1 [R,L]

If it's only images, you might want to consider making the expression more strict, such as:

RewriteRule ^media/(.+\.(jpe?g|gif|png)) /media/images/$1 [R,L]