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Tristan
Tristan

Reputation: 129

Share domain between two services

A bit of a strange question but we have a blog that we've been running on Tumblr for a long time and managed to build up a fair amount of traffic. We now want to move the main content over to a wordpress post but keep the smaller posts on tumblr.

Effectively we want the http://ourdomain.com to go to the wordpress site unless the url is in the form of http://ourdomain.com/post/* and then it would show the tumblr post

Any ideas how we would go about doing that?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 46

Answers (1)

fregante
fregante

Reputation: 31849

All requests to a hostname (ourdomain.com, in this case) will go to one server, while everything after it (/post/*) will just be the request to that server. This means that you can't have two servers under the same hostname… unless you set up a proxy on the server.

It's not really practical, but you can set urls starting with /post/ to be proxied from a Tumblr at different address (e.g. ourdomain.tumblr.com). Although, this means that posts will also be available on ourdomain.tumblr.com/post/*

The saner alternative would be to just have a separate Tumblr on a subdomain like blog.ourdomain.com and keep the main site on WordPress.

This works because blog.ourdomain.com is a different hostname from ourdomain.com and therefore it can be pointed to a different server.

Upvotes: 1

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