URL Rewriting without Redirection

ganninu · 04-28-2011, 04:17 PM

I am an avid 'rewriter' so to speak...but today I got a peculiar request at work, and maybe you folks can help me out.

I want to rewrite URL 'foo.com' as 'bar.com' (in the browser address bar) but still display the content of 'foo.com'.

Can this be done at all?

bathory · 04-28-2011, 06:06 PM

Hi,

If you're talking about vhosts on the same box, you can use mod_rewrite to rewrite foo.com to bar.com, while actually bar.com is an alias of foo.com? If you're using apache, something like the following should do:

Code:

...
ServerName foo.com
ServerAlias bar/com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^bar.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://bar.com/$1
...

In case that the 2 hosts are on different boxes you can setup bar.com as a reverse proxy of foo.com

Regards

omgs · 04-29-2011, 07:37 AM

You can use bar.com as ServerName and use UseCanonicalName On