Hello,

I am moving a large website from a proprietary CMS to Drupal. In the proprietary CMS, all media files (images, pdfs, etc.) have URLs like http://media.xxx.org/images/blah.jpg or http://media.xxx.org/documents/blah.pdf. In my Drupal .htaccess I have created the following two mod_rewrite rules so that the old URLs will continue to work and so we can continue using the scheme of http://media.xxx.org/images/whatever.jpg instead of using the Drupal location:

---
# handle imagecache images
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^media\.(xxx|xxx-stage)\.org$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^size=(x_small|small|medium_small|medium_large|large)$
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) /imagecache/%1/$1? [L,NE]

# handle requests for things at media.xxx.org
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^media\.(xxx|xxx-stage)\.org$
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) http://media.%1.org/sites/default/files/$1 [L]
---

I am not that experienced in regular expressions or mod_rewrite so I am actually not completely sure how I got the above rewrite rules to work, but they do actually work. (Beginner's luck, I guess!) In the actual RewriteRule of the second block (i.e., RewriteRule ^/?(.*) http://media.%1.org/sites/default/files/$1 [L]) I had to put the http://media.%1.org/ in order to get it to work. My question is how can I mask the rewritten URL so in the browser's address bar it just shows http://media.xxx.org/images/blah.jpg instead of http://media.xxx.org/sites/default/files/images/blah.jpg? To complicate matters, I believe our host uses a link of some sort so that http://media.xxx.org/sites/default/files is actually a link to /some/other/path/on/the/server. When I was looking at the Apache documentation it seemed like Alias or AliasMatch would be the thing to use to mask the URL but I could not figure out how to get it to work.

Thank you for any tips!

Mari
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