Multisite and dynamic configuration items in Drupal : help from Apache
Having recently merged a number of separately configured sites into a single consolidated multisite, I found myself with URLs like:
http://www.site1.com/sites/www.site1.com/files/somefile.png
...on all except the main site of the multisite configuration.
Although img_relocator allows me to just type things like:
<img src="somefile.png" />
... and still have these URLs be automagically generated, they still appear to those users who actually look at the URLs.
Enter mod_rewrite
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
With these sites running over Apache 2.x, mod_rewrite offers a simple way to rewrite the files URLs: in the Apache site definition file for the vhost describing the site, we can use: