Apache Rewrite IF not on 1, THEN pull from 2
I know it can be done, I just don't know how. Because of space and other limits on one box, I am needing to put some of my files on another box. I would like to be able to continue coding my pages to pull all URL's as if they were on one box. In short then, IF /server1/path/ exists THEN serve. IF /server1/path/ does NOT exist, THEN /server2/path/. I realize it's possible to get a 404 then in the end but I need it to at least try on the second server. The reason I don't want to just code the links to /server2/path/ is because I hope to eventually be able to put everything back together on one server.
I already use:
Code:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.htm$
RewriteCond /path/to/files%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
Rewriterule ^(.*)\.htm$ /$1.html [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html$
RewriteCond /path/to/files%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
Rewriterule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1.htm [L]
because I've been changing the format of my pages. Old pages were named .htm and new ones are .html but in case there's a link laying around to a .htm that's been converted, this will take care of it. At the same time, as I make the new pages, I'm coding them to pull .html but in case I've not made the new .html, it will pull the .htm. Yes, I realize this could cause a 500 error but I'll deal with a couple 500's vs a whole bunch of 404's.
I've been looking around and have found:
Code:
# Search in multi-directories
RewriteCond /path/to/files/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.+) /path/to/files/$1 [L]
RewriteCond http://server2/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.+) http://server2/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT]
Code:
# Redirect Failing URLs To Other Webserver
RewriteCond /path/to/files/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.+) http://server2/$1
I can't get either to work though. Right now I'm just trying to simply pull a file from server2's webroot and can't seem to get it to work. ....then I need to hope it will work with deeper paths.
Trying to get:
http://server1/image.jpg (which doesn't exist) to pull
http://server2/image.jpg since it doesn't exist on server1
I'm trying to get it to go even one step further and...
http://server1/path/to/image.jpg
use the path/to/image.jpg to then try
http://server2/path/to/image.jpg
If it matters, or better yet, if it can be forced, I'm only needing this to work with jpg files at the moment. I can leave all of the html files on server1.[/code]
