Re: silent URL redirect/cloak with mod_rewrite

[Hank <heskin@xxxxxxxxx>]

n Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Boyle Owen <Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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 understand you correctly, you have registered domainA and domainB and the domain names point to your server's IP in DNS. You want to map domainA to ../siteA and domainB to ../siteB. You don't have access to the server's httpd.conf directly and only have access to .htaccess files.

 Owen, 

  Thanks for your response.. yes, that is exactly what I want to do, and yes, I meant proxying the requests and not redirecting them -- thanks for the clarification.

 

 I've tried many combinations of the following, which I can get to work as a re-direct, but never a proxy:

 

RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}   ^domainA.com$
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$  http://basedomain.com/siteA/$1   [P]

WIth a [P] option, I get a 404 error.  With a [L] option, I get a redirect but the domain changes to basedomain.com/siteA and not domainA.com/.

 

I've tried

 

RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}   ^domainA.com$
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$  /home/user/public_html/siteA/$1  [P]

 

with both [L] and [P] and it still won't work like I want it to. 

 

I guess I'm surprised I can't get mod_rewrite to silently proxy a call to domainA.com to basedomain.com/siteA .  I'll guess I'll write a little PHP script to do it for me if I can't get mod_rewrite to do it for me.

 

thanks,

 

-Hank