On 18/3/03 20:14, "Tony Collen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reading this great article [1] (Thanks Pier!), I realized that the > mod_rewrite stuff could possibly be worked around using virtualhosts. I'm > not too familliar with Apache HTTPD 2, but I assume setting up vhosts is > not much different. Would it not make sense to create a static.domain.com > host (if you have the access and resources), and serve up all of your > images and resources out of there? > > This would allow you to totally ignore the mod_rewrite nastiness. The > only problem I could see is having to directly reference static resources > with the full domain, for example: > > <img src="http://static.domain.com/foo.png"/> > > Then again, it's not all that much different than > > <img src="/static/foo.png"/> > > Since they are both absolute paths. Any thoughts on best practices?
You are absolutely utterly right... We use this approach in production: all (most) images from <http://www.vnunet.com/> (my employer's) end up to... <http://images.vnunet.com/> We're still not using cocoon, but I'm working on it! :-) :-) Pier
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