possible to share images between Virtual Hosts?

[bjh]

I have set up two Virtual Host's named "A" and "B". I plan to use "B" as a testing site and was wondering if it is possible for "B" to access the images folder on "A" rather then having to having to copy over the images from "A" to "B"?

[Altrea]

Sure, you could simply configure an Alias for that images folder.
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/m ... html#alias

[Nobbie]

You also can use a symolic link from folder A to folder B (this works as well for Windows as for Linux). Activate "FollowSymlinks" in Apache Configuration.
You also may use the same DocumentRoot for both VirtualHosts, or embed one DocumentRoot under the other.
Or simply link all images to VirtualHost A, even in context of VirtualHost B.
Or redirect from image folder A to image folder in B (use relative links in HTML Scripts).
Or use URL rewrite, or or or.

There are sooo many solutions.

[bjh]

Thanks for the suggestion. Took a while but got finally got the Alias to work. Anyone know how to use the php file_exists() function on an alias directory? I had it set up to show a "Photo coming soon" GIF if the file wasn't found. Once I managed to get the Alias working and a hard coded picture to show up on the page, I changed it back to getting the pictures name from the database and now every picture is the "Photo coming soon". I'm guessing I'm passing in the wrong path for the images to the file_exists() function.

[Nobbie]

You have to pass the physical filename to file_exists. Like c:/xampp/htdocs/images/mypicture.jpg or so