i am working on website of a Digital Gadgets Manufacturer. Product images are hotlinked from hundreds of blogs & forums. which is causing bandwidth issues.
we want to replace all hotlinked images with their low resolution versions, using .htaccess
means if the hotlinked image path is
http://www.example.com/products/gadget123/gadget123.png
we want to redirect it to
http://www.example.com/images/low-res/gadget123.png
hotlinked image paths are different, means they may be from sub-directory of any directory.
for example
/images/products/abc/gadget_abc200.jpg
/products/images/abc/gadgetabc5155_packing.png
/downloads/brochures/abc2012/abc2012_user_guide.jpg
etc...
but all low resolution images will be in
http://www.example.com/images/low-res/
directory, and their names will be same as their high resolution versions.