Topic: Redirect url to localhost/images

[newbieuser]

I have a simple app where i am currently downloading some images from the internet. I want to use a local web server to host some of these images when i am not connected to the internet. I installed the apache web server and added the images folder under htdocs - my document root.

Now, i want something like when i continue to query images from www.examplesite.com/xyzimage.png within my app, it should be redirected to localhost/images. Is this possible? I tried doing this

In C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts i added this line

www.examplesite.com/xyzimage.png localhost/images

Also in the httpd.conf i set the foll -

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?examplesite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/examplesite
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /images/$1 [L]

but it doesnt seem to work. Please help !

[James Blond]

in your hosts file you can't do a redirect! You can only set an IP for a domain.

e.g.
127.0.0.1 www.examplesite.com
127.0.0.1 another.com