mod rewrite / remove query string AND add directory

[bad_brain]

phew...that was a hard one. we are using an updated image hosting script now for suck-o (check it out, it's sweet!), but sadly it is using a different way to handle the URLs.

on the old version, when uploading an image named 1.jpg the URL was:
/?v=1.jpg
but on the new one it would look something like:
/A

so I needed to rewrite the old URLs in order to keep the old images displayed, which took a lot of failed attempts (including nice results like redirect loops with hundreds of /images/images/images...), but I finally figured it out.

so here is how you can strip the query (?v= in this case) and add a directory to the URL:

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RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^v=(.*)$  [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /images/%1? [NC,L,R=301]

so now it rewrites:
/?v=1.jpg
to:
/images/1.jpg

[ayu]

nice