Apache directory links to other host
 

i have two Appache servers running one is has started serving up streaming media the other is the main homepage.

I would like to create a link from the main homepage to the IP of the other host so it can be viewed from main site. I hope that made sense.

so like www.mainsite.com/otherhost/ would link to the main servicing page of an internal host server runnning the media stream like http://192.168.0.42/ or something like that.

I'm a bit unclear as to whether virtualhosts will do this for me.

You could do that with mod_rewrite and mod_proxy, otherwise I dont think it works.

so it is really just a DNS thing.

No man, its a proxy thing, u will use the ip address to "transparently" redirect you to the inside website... something like that. I dont really know exacly how to explain, but look at httpd.apache.org at modules mod_rewrite or mod_redirect and mod_proxy for this issue.

I did this once, but I am not using Apache anymore and I need to do it myself to be able to explain it to you. So just try.

i seem to remember doing something along time ago now with the windows version of apache. but we are talking about years ago now.

Which methed would be choosen on performance alone?