Keeping files seperate to virtual domain path

[DrDan1]

Maybe I'm over complicating things here, but here goes.

I'd like to have a system where a user can have theri own website by selecting a website template.

Lets say a user select template1 stored at:
\htdocs\templates\template1\

He will also need to be able to store his own files, such as images, for example, his logo. Is there a way that Apache can pull files from a seperate location but for the same domain?

Lets say his images are stored at:
\htdocs\clients\client1\images\

I can't have the images stored in a subfolder of the template directory as the user may decide to change to a different template.

It needs to be so that when a browser looks at an image, it will appear as

http://www.mydomain.com/images/logo.jpg.

I'm using Apache2.2 and PHP 5. Maybe I'm going about this completely the wrong way and there is a much simpler solution.

Thanks,
Dan

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[DrDan1]

Ah! Never mind. I just found out about Alias! It does exactly what I need. Well, almost. If anybody knows of a way to generate a dynamic Alias path, then please let me know.

For example user1 will have an images folder that points to:
htdocs\shared\user1\images

And user 2 would have one that points to
htdocs\shared\user2\images

Something similar to mod_vhost_dbd, which I'm using for dynamic virtual hosts according to what I have in my database, but for aliases instead.

Cheers,
Dan

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Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
--Bruce Lee

 

[DrDan1]

I've managed to more or less do what I wa intending using mod rewrite, however of course this doesn't remove the actual variable folder that contains the "userX."

I was wondering if there was an Alias equivilent to vhost_dbd out there, but scouring the net, there doesn't seem to be. Pity.

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Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
--Bruce Lee