Some Out of the Norm Rewrite Help

Currently I have vbseo rewrite attachments to /content/attachments/xxx-xxxx.jpg

I am inserting some hotlink protection that will detect external requests and will take the last part of the URL and rebuild the image to add a watermark. The watermark.php file requires the path of the file in order to rebuild it and it therefore thinks that the location in /content/attachments/xxx-xxxx.jpg. This results in a broken image instead of the rebuilt image with the watermark.

Is there anything I can do with vbseo to actually decipher the /content/attachments/xxx-xxxx.jpg and instead of using it as the original image source, find the actual image source to rebuild it?

Put any image rules in your htaccess file BEFORE vbseo triggers, and it won't be re-written yet.

Hey Brian,

I have my watermark rewrite before anything else. The problem is that hotlinkers find the image url /content/attachments/xxx-xxxx.jpg and try to embed that. The watermark.php script looks for anything .jpg/gif/png/etc and tries to fetch the image from that physical location to rebuild it with a watermark. Since the image doesnt physically reside in /content/attachments it just shows a broken image.

I think what I am going to have to do is explode the _[GET] to retrieve the attachment id, query the db for the attachment to find the path and rebuild it behind the scenes.