How can I serve web pages on a single domain from 2 servers on 2 ip addresses

Question

I have an old website www.myoldsite.com. It's part html files and part wordpress blog (served at www.myoldsite.com/blog). It's served from a shared hosting package at 1&1

I also have an ecommerce store at www.mystore.com served from a dedicated server that I manage (and share with other django based sites).

I want to point www.myoldsite.com to my dedicated server and serve it up from there. The new site will sell products from the ecommerce store (hence the reason for moving it over) However I don't want to loose the seo juice from the blog.

Also I don't want install php or mysql on my dedicated machine, or adjust apache at all.

Is it possible to leave the old blog where it is and adjust dns / apache settings in order to continue serving pages from www.myoldsite.com/blog once I've change the A record to point to my dedicated server's ip address.

I'm planning to scrape the database from the blog and then build it into my django site but I suspect it'll take me a few days to move it all over. I don't want to spend a load of time doing this, only to find that I've missed something and could have achieved the same thing in half an hour.

I guess I just want to confirm that I can't serve web pages on a single domain from 2 servers on 2 ip addresses.

Answer 1

You probably just want to configure Apache as a reverse proxy to point to your old machine. It will transparently pass requests under the "blog/" path to the blog site.