Idiosynchracy With Apache Rewrites
Posted on September 22, 2009, under GNU/Linux.
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Did you know that it’s not possible to apply an Apache rewrite condition to multiple rewrite rules? I thought this would work, but requests from every IP address were being redirected:
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^10\.0\.10\.10$
RewriteRule ^uploads/(.*)$ /wp-content/uploads/$1
RewriteRule (.*) http://deadorange.com/blog$1 [L,R=301]
It turns out that RewriteCond directives only apply to the following RewriteRule. So my rewrite directives above were equivalent to “If the request came from 10.0.10.10, rewrite /uploads/.* to /wp-content/uploads/.* .Next, redirect everyone to http://deadorange.com/blog$1 .”
Unfortunately, the only solution is to repeat the condition:
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^10\.0\.10\.10$
RewriteRule ^uploads/(.*)$ /wp-content/uploads/$1
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^10\.0\.10\.10$
RewriteRule (.*) http://deadorange.com/blog$1 [L,R=301]
That isn’t very DRY, but if it’s the only way, we have to live with it!