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From: Hank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:43 AM
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] silent URL redirect/cloak with
mod_rewrite
Hello All,
I've tried about 100 combinations and searched google over and
over, but I can't find nor figure out how to do this simple task.
I have one webserver with sites at:
/home/user/public_html/ ( http://basedomain.com
<http://basedomain.com/> site points here)
/home/user/public_html/siteA
/home/user/public_html/siteB
I have domain names like this: http://domainA.com
<http://domaina.com/> and http://domainB.com <http://domainb.com/>
I want to *silently* redirect http://domainA.com
<http://domaina.com/> to /home/user/public_html/siteA
and http://domainB.com <http://domainb.com/> to
/home/user/public_html/siteB
Now keep in mind the literals "domainA" is not the same as the
directory name "siteA", and same for domainA/siteA.
I have found several ways to non-silently redirect
http://domainA.com <http://domaina.com/> to http://basedomain/siteA,
but that's not good enough. It needs to be a silent re-direct.
I realize I could do this with virtual domains if I had access
to httpd.conf, but I don't on this server.
Thanks,
-Hank
If I 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.
Then I don't think this is possible. Here's why:
The NameVirtualHost mechanism is specifically designed for this
situation, but this has to be used in the main config - it is impossible
to do this in .htaccess. The problem is that although the request (for
domainA, say) might come in with a header like "Host: domainA", without
a NameVirtualHost directive and a corresponding VH, this will be ignored
and the request will go the main docroot.
BTW, "redirect" has a very specific meaning in HTTP - it means to send a
301 or 302 redirect response that causes the browser to submit a new
request to a new URL. It is always non-"silent" - ie, the browser
location display shows the new URL. By "silent redirect", I think you
mean proxying - where the server gets content from a new URL and returns
it to the browser without telling it where it came from. That's a
different thing and is never referred to as redirection.
Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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