I want to redirect from:
domain1.com/photos
To:
domain2.com/photos
I want the URL in the address bar to still read:
domain1.com/photos
Is there a way to do this using only .htaccess?
Note:
My .htaccess file for domain1.com is currently completely blank.
No, there isn't a way to do this with .htaccess. Doing so would present a glaring security hole - imagine someone doing this with a bank's website!
If both are hosted on the same server, do this in your .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.domain2.com$1 [P]
</IfModule>
If you own both domain1 and domain2, you could accomplish this through domain name forwarding. Check your domain name registrar (like godaddy.com) for the options.
No, you can not do it through htaccess file.
You could open an iframe in domain1.com/photos that shows the contents of domain2.com/photos. But then the url would never change from domain1.com/photos, even when you went to a different page in domain2.
What are you trying to do? It sounds very sketchy. Do you own both domains? Why would you want to duplicate the contents of one site at another address?
Why is this not possible? Seems like a reasonable task as long as your Apache has mod_proxy installed:
ProxyPass /photos http://domain2.com/photos/
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass
A way around it, if the page at domain.com/photos is a server side script, do an HTTP call and serve up the response.
In ColdFusion:
<cfhttp url="another.domain.com/photos">
<cfoutput>#CFHTTP.FileContent#</cfoutput>
They'll be an extra request, but it'll get you the output you want.
its impossible using htaccess file.
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I have a domainname, www.X.com that redirects (using some magic from the webhosting-company from which I bought www.X.com) any user that visits www.X.com to www.Y.com/test.
This works fine, but what I would like to happen is for the URL to remain www.X.com after the redirect. Right now, after the redirect the users URL changes to www.Y.com/test.
I'm not sure if htaccess rewriting at www.Y.com can fix this issue, so I would like to know wether this is possible and if so, how do I implement it in my .htacces file?
Regards and thanks in advance,
Robert
Instead of using the redirect tool of your hosting provider. You have to configure your domain to point to your server with a DNS A record:
Domain Type target server
www.X.com. A x.x.x.x
www.Y.com. A x.x.x.x
In your server virtualhost or via your hosting provider you need to configure both domains to point to your website.
In your .htaccess file you need ton configure domain www.X.com to point to the test directory:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.X.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /test/$1
Problem was solved by clearing out my Chrome cache; The webhost-magic HAD done the trick. Thanks mr Rockett and mr Lemaitre for your time!
I want to internally redirect the domain redacted.org to redacted.redacted.org. So, when people go to redacted.org they see redacted.redacted.org without having the address changed in their adresses bar.
This .htaccess file should be placed in the root of redacted.org:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) /path/to/redacted.redacted.org
PS. Seeing the comments on the question, I'm not the only one to wonder what attempts you've made yourself at solving the problem before posting it.
I've been searching the archives but I can't find anything that is making too much sense to me.
I have a site with a couple of subdomains which redirect to other sites.
E.g.
the visitor types - www.jmp.redtwenty.com.au - and is redirected to - http://creator.zoho.com/redtwenty/jmp-conversion-tracking
Is there any way to mask this redirect so that the visitor still sees jmp.redtwenty.com.au in the address bar?
I keep seeing mention of a rewrite rule in .htaccess but not sure if that is what I want.
Thanks
Mike
You can do this a few ways, but you'll need to make sure mod_proxy is enabled.
If you have control of the server config or the vhost config of the www.jmp.redtwenty.com.au/ domain, you can add this to it:
ProxyPass / http://creator.zoho.com/redtwenty/jmp-conversion-tracking/
Or in the htaccess file in the document root of http://www.jmp.redtwenty.com.au/:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://creator.zoho.com/redtwenty/jmp-conversion-tracking/$1 [L,P]
Are there anyway to make a user get to download thefile by let them type:download.mywebsite.com/thefile
in the browser address while the "download.mywebsite.com/thefile" does not exist but the "www.mywebsite.com/thefile" does.
I've got nearly zero knowledge with .htaccess and mod_rewrite engine. I hope my question is clear.
IF you own mywebsite.com then yes you could, you would have to place a ServerAlias in your root httpd.conf directive then use mod_rewrite to re-write all requests for download.mywebsite.com/thefile to www.mywebsite.com/thefile but the mod_rewrite would not know if a file exists or not in advance.
Another way to do it would be implement a custom error document for a 404 handler which redirects a user to a suggested URL.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/download/(.*)$ http://download.mywebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
You need to set up your web server to listen for sub-domains as well
I'm quite new here so i have a problem about masking and tried other solutions using .htaccess as well but no luck, that's why im here. Thanks.
Ok here's it is:
I want my http://www.domain.com/article-tip to show in http://www.subdomain.domain.com
It means the page content is from: domain.com/article-tip
But the url above the address is: subdomain.domain.com
How would i do that using .htaccess?
It means i also tried the iframe and frames and php, but i want the .htaccess
Thanks in advance.!
you can use mod_rewrite in that case the URL will be subdomain.domain.com/article-tip but in php URL will be www.domain.com/article-tip.
I don't think you can send dynamic output to browser like what you want with .htaccess
This should work for what you need to get all files in article-tip to point to the subdomain. The subdomain should also point to the subdirectory. This is for the .htaccess of the subdirectory.
RewriteRule ^article-tip(.*)$ http://subdomain.domain.com [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^article-tip/(.*)$ http://subdomain.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]