.htaccess Redirects

How do I set up an .htaccess file to redirect requests to another folder on another domain? I don't want the links to break, I just want them to go elsewhere. Say mysite.com/image.jpg would redirect to site2.com/images/image.jpg.

From stackoverflow

• This should help:

  Redirect 301 / http://www.example.com/

• In .htaccess (in Apache at least):

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^images/(.*)$ http://www.yahoo.com/blah/$1 [R=302,L]
  

  BlaM : Just as an additional hint: You need mod_rewrite installed on your server to use this.

• Now, what a big surprise, the official documentation has lots of useful examples, including what you are looking for. Yeah, it really sucks that Google is down so often.

  Chris : 'twas for me, earlier ;-)

• You could use mod_rewrite to redirect the request. If you want to redirect everything:

  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^ http://other.example.com/images%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
  

  And if you just want to redirect requests with a path that end in .jpg:

  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule \.jpg$ http://other.example.com/images%{REQUEST_URI} [L]