two hosts to one domain.

[Peter]

I asked about a way to use many host but only one domian. like www.domain.net is on host and www.domain.net/folder shows the other hosts thing. Some have told me that this can be done with mod rewrite but noone knows how.
Is this possible with mod rewrite? If it is, how can I do that?

[richardk]

It would require mod_rewrite and mod_proxy. In a .htaccess file in the domain.com's document root (on the main host)

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^folder/(.*)$ http://www.other-host.com/something/$1 [P,L]

[Peter]

I don't know what mod_proxy is but I use the code you gave me and it worked very well! Is that code mod_proxy also?

[richardk]

The P flag in the RewriteRule means that instead of redirecting (which it otherwise would because the path starts with http://) it gets passed to mod_proxy and proxied.

[Peter]

I don't know exactly how this work so does this take bandwith from the host that I have www.domain.net on?

[richardk]

The file gets transfered twice. You request it from server A, the request is proxied to server B, the file is sent to server A from server B, server A sends the file to you. Whether it counts towards you bandwidth limit i don't know.

[Peter]

Ok thanks.