RewriteEngine on # rather than link to images/ha/hash and have an ugly filename, # we link to images/hash/tags.ext; mod_rewrite splits things so # that shimmie sees hash and the user sees tags.ext RewriteRule ^_images/([0-9a-f]{2})([0-9a-f]{30})/.*\.(.*)$ images/$1/$1$2 [L] RewriteRule ^_thumbs/([0-9a-f]{2})([0-9a-f]{30})/.*\.jpg$ thumbs/$1/$1$2 [L] # any requests for files which don't physically exist should be handled by index.php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]