blog not redirecting. Possible?

Hello!

I have a site and domain set up here on Webfaction. I'd like the 'homepage' of the site (i.e. http://example.com/) to point to an external website. This isn't a problem, I can set the IP address/A Record to do that for me via Webfaction's control panel.

However, I'd then like to have certain URLs NOT go to the external site. For instance, the URLs "http://example.com/blog" and "http://example.com/shows" should point to an application I have running on Webfaction.

Is this even possible?

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asked Apr 29 '12 at 13:24

Big Al
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Without a change in DNS, you can achieve this by adding the following to a .htaccess entry using a Static/CGI/PHP application.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} mysite\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://mysecondsite.com/ [L,R=301]

answered Apr 29 '12 at 13:53

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edited Apr 29 '12 at 14:01

Wouldn't that forward a visitor to http://mysecondsite.com?

I am trying to make it so the user will appear to be in http://example.com. So: http://example.com = external site http://example.com/blog = local webfaction application http://example.com/shows = same local webfaction application

Would the .htaccess allow this?

(Apr 29 '12 at 15:22) Big Al

What you want is a proxy, this can be done with a rule like this ,

1	RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://mysecondsite.com/$1 [P,L]

(Apr 29 '12 at 17:35) johns ♦♦

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