I have seen a few similar questions on here, but none of the answers have seemed to get me where I need to be.
I have a site, say:
www.first.com
And another site called:
www.second.com
The second.com domain is on a different server than first.com, but they are for the same company. I am trying to merge the domains into www.first.com so that end users only see first.com for this particular brand.
There is a Java applet running on www.second.com/applet that needs to stay on its own server. However, I would like to only have one domain to access the contents on both www.first.com and www.second.com -- I have looked into a 301 redirect, but I am trying to only have ONE SINGLE domain for this. The problem with a 301 is that the URL changes and displays "www.second.com" in the domain, which is what I am trying to avoid.
I would like to have JUST www.first.com and if someone goes to "www.first.com/applet" it shows the content from "www.second.com/applet" but KEEP "www.first.com/applet" in the URL bar, but this is seemingly difficult to achieve with my level of knowledge.
I have tried this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?first\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.second.com/$1 [P]
to no avail. I get the following error:
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
X-Forwarded-Server
/n
Apache Server at * Port 80
I have read a little about a reverse proxy or something that may work.
How would I properly configure this? I found this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass / http://example.com
ProxyPassReverse / http://example.com
ServerName sub.example.com
</VirtualHost>
From here: How to show content from other domain without changing the URL
But I am not trying to use a subdomain. Hopefully I have explained what I need here. Basically, merging two domains that need to remain on separate servers but be delivered from a single domain.
Thanks!
It is very easy:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^Domainyoustayat.tld
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://Domain-you-want-to-show-on-above.tld/$1 [P]
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I have a website for example: https://test1.com, and a page on that website https://test1.com/show-content.
I want that page to display the content from another website, for example https://test2.com/show-different-content.
I know I can do it with PHP and file_get_contents, but I'm trying to do it with .htaccess, since I understand it can be possible. I've looked through all the SO questions I found regarding that, but I found no clear solution.
What I have tried in .htaccess is the following:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>=
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^show-content$ https://test2.com/show-different-content [P]
</IfModule>
What am I doing wrong? Or am trying to do something that is not possible?
You have two options for this if the owner of that second site actually grants permission to proxy his sites content. You can use the proxy module available for the apache http server.
Either direct:
ProxyPass /show-content/ https://test2.com/show-different-content/
ProxyPassReverse /show-content/ https://test2.com/show-different-content/
Or embedded in the rewriting module:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?show-content/(.*)$ https://test2.com/show-different-content/$1 [P]
Obviously the proxy module needs to be loaded and activated inside the http server.
I am struggling with an age old problem. I inherited a site with some pretty good SEO and one glaring problem. The entire site is hosted on the /site/ subdirectory. I have decided that I need to load the site at the root. So something like http://example.org/site/index.php will instead redirect to /index.php (<-- that counted as a link, if it is unclear I mean it to be the root of the site/index.php.)
We use joomla for our backend and there are hundreds of pages on the site at this point. I have struggled getting any of the redirects I have seen to do what I want them to do. Basically, any page our patrons visit from an old link with /site/ in it should be redirected to the exact same link, but without the star.
I am open to just loading the page from /site/ and making it look like it is from root. It is my understanding that this can be done with some advances mod-rewrite (http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/85/Using+.htaccess+rewrite+rules#gs ?) but I have not had any success yet. I run a beta site that mimics the parent site in a subdomain that I have already moved from /site/ to / so I can test a lot of .htaccess configs.
Any help is appreciated... thanks!
Just to be sure: you want http://example.org/site/foo/bar/baz.php to go to http://example.org/foo/bar/baz.php, that is, to remove (via redirect) the /site prefix if it's there, but not touch the URL otherwise, right? If so, it depends on which server you're using:
If your server is Apache, you could use something like this in .htaccess:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/site/(.*)$ http://example.com/$1
If it is nginx, add this to the server {...} session of your site's file (usually symlinked inside /etc/nginx/sites-enabled):
location ~ ^/site/(.*)$ { rewrite ^/site/(.*)$ /$1 permanent; }
Here is a good explanation on how such pattern-based redirects can be set up in both servers.
This seems to be the working answer that I will go with. Basically, this needs put into the directory that you are wanting to redirect from, in my case, that was root/site/.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{http_host} !^www.beta.example.org$ [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://beta.example.org/$1 [r=301,nc,L]
I assume the first rule ignores www? I'd love to work around that but am not sure exactly why it would have been created anyway. this will rewrite any URL that accesses that .htaccess file (inside your subdirectory) and direct you to the same URL without the subdirectory listing. It doesn't really work with the index.php rewrite tool, but that is fine because it still reaches the correct page.
If anyone has a better option for me with use with Joomla I would be glad to hear it. But, I tihnk this is what I will go with for now because it is giving me great results.
if your server is apache2, you can configure there
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName sitio.com
ServerAlias www.sitio.com
DocumentRoot /home/user/public_html/sitio/
...
</VirtualHost>
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I own a domain since long, just masking the names:
http://mydomain.com
Later I started using a subdomain on this domain for some project.
http://subdomain.mydomain.com
Those projects grew and now I have a structure like
http://subdomain.mydomain.com/project1
http://subdomain.mydomain.com/project2
http://subdomain.mydomain.com/project3/subproject1
http://subdomain.mydomain.com/project3/subproject2
http://subdomain.mydomain.com/project3/subproject3
http://subdomain.mydomain.com/project4
....
etc.
now I bought a new domain (shortdomain.com) where I plan not to move anything but everything should be accessible via redirects so everything looks like:
http://shortdomain.com
http://shortdomain.com/project1
http://shortdomain.com/project2
http://shortdomain.com/project3/subproject1
http://shortdomain.com/project3/subproject2
http://shortdomain.com/project3/subproject3
http://shortdomain.com/project4
...
etc.
So basically I need to do two things:
1. if anyone visits my old domain, redirect them the new naming structure. i.e. if someone loads http://subdomain.mydomain.com/project2 they should be redirected to http://shortdomain.com/project2
when a user loads/redirected to http://shortdomain.com/project2 this should actually load the content present at http://subdomain.mydomain.com/project2
So I will not manually migrate projects,codes and GBs of other data. I think this might be acievable by smart redirection only.
Just FYI:
1. I have full DNS control of both the domains
2. I am hosted on hostgator
3. I use cloudflare on the first domain and would like to continue using it
I think this might be acievable by smart redirection only.
No, redirection changes what's in the browser's location bar. If you redirect to shortdomain.com then the request will get sent to shortdomain.com, and have nothing to do with subdomain.mydomain.com anymore. If you redirect back to subdomain.mydomain.com, then the location bar in the browser will change as well.
What you really want to do is point shortdomain.com to the same server and document root that subdomain.mydomain.com is on. Then use this to redirect (either in htaccess file or server config):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.mydomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://shortdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
If, for whatever absurd reason you can't point the shortdomain.com DNS to the same webserver that serves subdomain.mydomain.com, or can't setup that webserver to accept requests for the shortdomain.com host, you need to setup a proxy server. And it'll work something like this:
2 Webservers, server A (hosts subdomain.domain.com) and server B (hosts shortdomain.com)
Someone requests http://subdomain.mydomain.com/project3/subproject1
server A gets the request and redirects the browser to http://shortdomain.com/project3/subproject1
browser's location bar changes to new location
server B gets the request and reverse proxies the request back to server A
server A gets the request again but must recognize that it is a proxy and then serve the page instead of redirecting
As you can see, this is a horrendously ineffecient solution. It's also a high possibility that your hosting service won't allow you to setup proxy servers.
I have full DNS control of both the domains
With full control I assume you can enable mod_proxy as well on Apache web-server of shortdomain.com. Once that is done set it all up this way.
On subdomain.mydomain.com enable mod_rewrite and place this rule in Apache config OR DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.mydomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://shortdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
On shortdomain.com enable mod_proxy, mod_rewrite and place this rule in Apache config OR DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^shortdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://subdomain.mydomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,P]
I'm stuck with htaccess redirect on this case:
I have myapp.com domain where my main website and service runs on. My customers logs into their accounts on myapp.com and use. Now, I am going to provide one of the features on a separate domain, let's assume "goto.com". However, I don't want to build a separate app on goto.com. I just want to redirect all coming requests to goto.com to a php script under myapp.com but this redirection should be in the backend (masked), not a 301 redirection.
Let me clear up:
myapp.com - /var/www/vhosts/myapp.com/httpdocs/index.php
goto.com --> masked redirection --> myapp.com/goto.php?$1
How can I do this with htaccess? Any suggestions?
Just found that it can be done with redirect [P] (proxy) method: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://myapp.com/public_view/$1 [P] What do you think? Is this a good and stable method?
That method is fine, it utilizes the mod_proxy module. The only thing I can suggest is adding the L flag as well in case you have other rules in your htaccess file.
A limitation with using the P flag in an htaccess file is that if a page or request to http://myapp.com/ redirects, then you're URL address bar will say http://myapp.com/ instead of your other domain. The only way around this is to use ProxyPassReverse but it doesn't work in an htaccess file. You'd need access to vhost config:
ProxyPass / http://myapp.com/public_view/
ProxyPassReverse / http://myapp.com/public_view/
Additionally, if http://myapp.com/ sets cookies, you'll need to use the ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain and ProxyPassReverseCookiePath directives to rewrite those.
I've been searching the archives but I can't find anything that is making too much sense to me.
I have a site with a couple of subdomains which redirect to other sites.
E.g.
the visitor types - www.jmp.redtwenty.com.au - and is redirected to - http://creator.zoho.com/redtwenty/jmp-conversion-tracking
Is there any way to mask this redirect so that the visitor still sees jmp.redtwenty.com.au in the address bar?
I keep seeing mention of a rewrite rule in .htaccess but not sure if that is what I want.
Thanks
Mike
You can do this a few ways, but you'll need to make sure mod_proxy is enabled.
If you have control of the server config or the vhost config of the www.jmp.redtwenty.com.au/ domain, you can add this to it:
ProxyPass / http://creator.zoho.com/redtwenty/jmp-conversion-tracking/
Or in the htaccess file in the document root of http://www.jmp.redtwenty.com.au/:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://creator.zoho.com/redtwenty/jmp-conversion-tracking/$1 [L,P]