Rewrite rule generating Internal Server Error

[eluser]johncook[/eluser]
Reading up in the wee hours of the morning, you're a legend! Any time after midnight, my brain is incapable of learning new things so I'm impressed.

Okay, adding the forward slashes at the start of the regex and rewritten URL has removed the Internal Server Error. So good progress!!! :-) It's still weird though. When I used your code exactly as is, what seemed to happen was:

http://cavaliers.criciwiki.com/images/header1.gif >>> http://www.criciwiki.com/images/header1.gif

Eg - it seems to completely ignore the %1 in the rewritten URL. So I tried a few other things:

Code:

RewriteRule ^/images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L]

This does exactly what you would expect, which is the same as your code. So I tried manually putting a subdirectory in:

Code:

RewriteRule ^/images/(.*)$ /images/cavaliers/$1 [L]

This does the same thing again - it only works for images in the images/ directory. Any time I try an image that's in the cavaliers/ directory, it gives a File Not Found error. Better than an Internal Server Error, I'll grant you that. But strangely, it only seems to be rewriting to the images/ directory.

But the forward slashes definitely fixed the server error, which was a great help! :-)