CODEWITHSUNDEEP
apache.htaccess
user2120615
user2120615

Reputation: 11

Point new domain to existing sub directory and mask URL

I have an existing website at domain1.com, and we eventually started a new website at domain1.com/newsite. Now we'd like to give that site its own domain name but keep it at the current location, so we purchased a new domain name (domain2.com) and pointed it to domain1.com/newsite

Including this in our htaccess works perfectly for redirecting all URLs,

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain2.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^ http://domain1.com/newsite/%{REQUEST_URI} [L,P]

But, I'd like to mask the URL in the address bar so that visitors only see domain2.com along with whatever page they're requesting in their browser. domain2.com/foo for example which would display content from domain1.com/newsite/foo

All solution I've been able to find either accomplish what I already have in place, or provide domain masking by only showing domain2.com in the address bar without anything following it.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 194

Answers (1)

Alain O'Dea
Alain O'Dea

Reputation: 21716

Use virtual hosting and alternate document roots:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /www/newsite
    ServerName domain2.com
    # other directives
</VirtualHost>

This assumes the DocumentRoot of domain1.com is /www.

Upvotes: 0

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