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Dean Rather
Asked: 2010-03-30 15:16:03 +0800 CST

Can I proxy my no-ip domain using a .htaccess file on my hosted domain?

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I have a domain http://www.example.com which has a hosting package and website on it.

I also have a http://example.no-ip.org domain which contains some content I would like to appear under the same domain.

Can I setup a .htaccess file at http://www.example.com/proxy/ which proxies the files at http://www.example.no-ip.org/files/

Similarly, could I host an entire domain in the same way?, e.g. http://www.example2.com/ proxying http://example.no-ip.org/files2/

Alternatively, if someone were to say "That's stupid, use this free (or super-cheap) dynamic DNS host:" I would probably accept that answer.

apache-2.2 proxy .htaccess dynamic-ip

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Basically, you'd need to setup a Reverse Proxy. In Apache, this is done using ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse, but these directives can't be used in .htaccess.

    There is a proxy option in mod_rewrite, so if mod_rewrite and mod_proxy is enabled, you could maybe use something like 

    RewriteRule ^/(.*)$  http://example.no-ip.org/files2/$1 [P]

    in your .htaccess, this would proxy example2.com/x.html to example.no-ip.org/files2/x.html. Redirects etc. sent from the backend will not work since you can't specify ProxyPassReverse. All in all not the way to go, so either putting everything in the same server or registering a DNS entry are both way better options.

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  2. Nope But you can use apache's mod proxy to do something similar:

    http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass

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