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Eamorr
Asked: 2013-08-27 00:42:17 +0800 CST

Apache2: serve page from another IP address

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Please bear with me while I try to explain some htaccess gymnastics I'd like to perform.

I have this domain: eamorr.somesite.com, at 192.168.100.100.

It is serving pages from my public_html folder as expected.

Now, I want to use the following address:

www.somesite.com/eamorr

I do not have control over www.somesite.com (192.168.99.99), however my sysadmin has allowed me to place a .htaccess file in the eamorr folder. I am not allowed, under any circumstances, to place anything else in the eamorr folder for reasons I do not know.

What I want to happen is this:

User navigates to www.somesite.com/eamorr/some_page.php

User is fed some_page.php from eamorr.somesite.com/some_page.php (i.e. 192.168.100.100/some_page.php).

I'd like this to be as seamless as possible -- i.e. when a user navigates to http://www.somesite.com/eamorr/some_page.php they get served some_page.php and are oblivious to the fact that some_page is coming from a different server (192.168.100.100)

http://www.somesite.com/eamorr should be in the address bar of the user's browser at all times and not http://eamorr.somesite.com -- my boss "just wants it that way"...

Is this possible to do using .htaccess?

apache-2.2

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It sounds like what you want is what is called a "reverse proxy", and it's a job for Apache's mod_proxy. However, you can't set this up in a .htaccess file -- it has to be done in a different context. Perhaps someone here knows better, but I don't think what you're asking for will be possible with a single .htaccess file alone.

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  2. Use Apache mod_proxy to point to another server. Apache docs here.

    This worked well:

    ProxyPass /blog http://blog.example.com/
ProxyPassReverse /blog http://blog.example.com/

    But only after the proxy modules were loaded correctly:

    LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_html_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_html.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so

    Notes

    • Because of CloudFlare I also had to host the blog from a different hostname, not *.example.com.
    • I added Disallow: / to my blog.example.com/robots.txt. Like this search engines will not start indexing in two locations. And search engines will simply ignore blog/robots.txt.
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