I'll try and explain this the best I can; I have two domain names: www.original.com and www.mysite.com/. Within the site for www.original.com there is no content and all the content is hosted in www.mysite.com/original/. Now, when I visit www.original.com I have set up a redirect like this:
redirectMatch 307 ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/original
However, I have realised that this is not what I need, because I would like the visitors of the www.original.com site to see www.original.com on the address bar, and not http://www.mysite.com/original. Is there any way to do this in .htaccess? I used to do it in the cPanel of my old hosting account via an addon domain, but the hosting I have now (united-domains.de) do not provide addon domains, apparently.
Thanks
Since the 2 sites are separate, you'll need to rely on mod_proxy. There are a number of ways to create a reverse proxy from the www.original.com domain to the www.mysite.com domain. The easiest would be to use ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse:
ProxyPass / http://www.mysite.com/original
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.mysite.com/original
But these are only applicable inside the server or vhost config. If you don't have access to that, you'll have to use mod_rewrite's [P] flag, which hands the target substitution of a RewriteRule to mod_proxy, and you can use this within an htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?original\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/original/$1 [L,P]
You have to tell www.original.com to act like a proxy server. but this may require you more than just editing an htaccess.
See this for more informations : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html
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I need to point from someSub.somedomain.com to mysub.mydomain.com, and I need the url of the site to continue reading someSub.somedomain.com
I've tried many variations of:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^DomainA.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://DomainB.com/$1 [P]
But I can't seem to get anything to work. Any advice?
This answer kind of already answers this question:
https://serverfault.com/questions/506623/masking-the-url-in-a-mod-rewrite
But it appears to me what you are looking for is a reverse proxy.
In the virtual host for your server:
ServerName somesub.somedomain.com
ProxyPass "/" http://mysub.mydomain.com/
ProxyPassReverse "/" http://mysub.somedomain.com/
Now when you go to your http://somesub.somedomain.com all the requests will behind the scenes actually be going to http://mysub.mydomain.com but the browser user won't see that.
There are various customizations to this you can make.
Don't forget to enable mod_proxy
Apache virtual hosting url redirect from one domain to other domain without showing the url in the browser?
That's not redirect, that's called Reverse Proxy.
Example:
ProxyPass /url-path/ http://backend.example.com/url-path/
This will reverse proxy all requests to /url-path/whatever to the server backend specified
More information at:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/reverse_proxy.html
No, there isn't a way to do this with .htaccess if your sites are on different servers. Doing so would present big security hole, imagine if someone does this with a bank´s website.
However, if both are hosted on the same server try this on your .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^http://www.domain1.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.domain2.com$1 [P]
</IfModule>
If you own both domains you could accomplish this with domain name forwarding. Check the options in your registrar (maybe godaddy, or dns managers like cloudflare).
I have a requirement where I have to redirect my hostname to particular application which is again hosted on same Apache. Let's take an example, When I hit on host(https://domain1.example.com), It should internally redirect me to Apache Web Application (https://domain1.example.com/application1) without changing the browser URL.
I am not sure how to achieve SSL to SSL redirection. Thanks in Advance..!!!
This should work. This will redirect all incoming urls that are going to domain1.example.com/ to domain1.example.com/application1
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1.example.com$
RewriteRule ^$ https://domain1.example.com/application1 [L,R=301]
If without changing browsing URL is your goal then PROXY is your way.
Put following in your apache vhost or global file,
ProxyPass https://domain1.example.com/ https://domain1.example.com/application1
ProxyPassReverse https://domain1.example.com/ https://domain1.example.com/application1
PS shibboleth has nothing to do with this, at least you have not mentioned any case.
EDIT
ProxyPass should come to virtural host not in location
Ideally all the location tag should be out of virtual host
I am trying to get a subdomain to show to contents of another domain, with the ability to go to any area of the other domain i.e. all directories
So for example I would like my client to go to "sub.domain-one.com" or more specifically "sub.exampledomain.com/client_name". I would like this to then show the content of "domain-two.com", my development server, without the client knowing.
I would also if possible like to keep the base domain of "sub.domain-one.com" to stay on my live server so that I can keep a index.php on that server. But this is only an extra wish :)
My current code is
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(sub.)?domain-one.com/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(sub.)?domain-one.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://domain-two.com/$1 [P,NC]
This code seems to work to an extent (it will let me go to sub.domain-one.com but if I go to sub.domain-one.com/client_name it will redirect my browser url to domain-two.com/client_name
But I need it hidden :(
Thanks heaps in advanced
James
You need to use a ProxyPassReverse in order to rewrite redirects from the proxied site to the site that you are proxying from. Unfortunately, you can't do this in an htaccess file. In the server/vhost config, you'll need to create a virtual host for "sub.domtain-one.com"/"domain-one.com", then use ProxyPass:
ProxyPass / http://domain-two.com/
ProxyPassReverse / http://domain-two.com/
I'm trying to figure out how to properly do this. I'm hosting a domain that used to have a website also on the same server, however the website has now been moved to a different machine, but they want to keep the domain hosted on our DNS. Rather than changing the DNS record right now, I'm trying to figure out how to do a proxy redirect but I'm having some trouble.
Right now, I'm using the RewriteEngine to rewrite the URL as follows:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.org [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.domain.org/$1 [L,R]
This is in case someone looks up the website simply by http://domain.org it will get rewritten to http://www.domain.com - that works fine.
Now I need to redirect it to go to an IP address with a username:
http://111.222.333.444/~user
Rather than simply redirecting it to that address, I'd like to do a proxy where the domain will still be visible in the browser's address bar, while also keeping the above rule in place.
Suggestions anyone?
Make sure mod_proxy is enabled and do:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain.com
ProxyPass / http://111.222.333.444/~user
</VirtualHost>