I want to redirect to page url from image url.
i.e. nevil120.herobo.com/images/Chrysanthemum.jpg to nevil120.herobo.com/index.php?image=free
The redirection should happen but url should not be changed in browser. Url should remain as nevil120.herobo.com/images/Chrysanthemum.jpg and page should load.
How to achieve it through redirection rules of .htaccess?
you could do:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(jpg)$ [NC]
RewriteRule RewriteRule ^images/([^/]+)$ index.php?image=free [QSA,L]
this will redirect all images with the .jpg extension to index.php?image=free. if you want images/Chrysanthemum.jpg to redirect to index.php?image=Chrysanthemum.jpg you could do:
RewriteRule ^images/([^/]+)$ index.php?image=$1 [QSA,L]
Note: the QSA flag appends any parameters from the original url to the new one. That means that if someone goes to images/Chrysanthemum.jpg?image=dandelion, the $_GET['image'] variable will be dandelion. To still get the first image parameter (Chrysanthemum.jpg) you can use the following regex in php:
$image = preg_replace('/image=([^&]+).*/', '$1', $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
or you can just remove the QSA flag