Hide servers real URL?....how?

[Guest]

Hi
I have a site http://www.siteA.com/dirname/ which is to be redirected (via redirection) to http://<IPnumber>/ but still appear to the browser to be accessing http://www.SiteA.com/dirname/
Could someone help me please as I am a complete novice with mod_rewite I'm afraid
dUb

[Brett]

Hi dUb,

If you use redirection, the new URL is likely to appear in the browser window, but you can accomplish it by including the following in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^dirname/(.*)$ http://<IPnumber>/$1 [R]

Another way, which is not really a redirect but which will hide the new URL, is to make a PHP file, redirect.php, containing the following code:
<?php
readfile ("http://<IPnumber>/$QUERY_STRING");
?>

Then include the following in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^dirname/(.*)$ redirect.php?$1

This thread is a related topic.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Brett on 2001-11-25 22:57 ]</font>

[SmokeyMcPot]

i have a similar problem only i have a domain name www.testuser.com and i want to redirect that to a dynamic location

http://www.testserver.com/opencms/openc ... /index.jsp

but still keep the same domain name (www.testuser.com) visible in the address bar.

Have you got any idea's how i could accomplish this.


Thanks for any help
Brad