How to redirect to another domain But Not Show The URL redirection with .htaccess?

Question

I am not sure if .htaccess can handling this, I do search a lot's of related topics, but find no solution.

What I need is:

when my users visit my site: www.mysite.com

actually they got content from www.otherplace.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/page.html

I would like user's browser address shows: www.mysite.com or www.mysite.com/page.html also fine for me, but not show's anything about the site: www.otherplace.com....

page.html is just single page, tiddlywiki, :)

thank you. :)

Answer 1

If you are using apache this can be done with proxy. Open /etc/apache2/mods-available/proxy.conf and add your's definition

<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
        ProxyRequests Off

        <Proxy *>
                AddDefaultCharset off
                Order Allow,Deny
                Allow from all
        </Proxy>

    ProxyPass / http://www.otherplace.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/page.html
    ProxyPassReverse / http://www.otherplace.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/page.html

</IfModule>

I use similar configuration to host multiple services that listen on different ports (e.g. Jenkins, codebrag e.t.c) with on http each with their own directory e.g

ProxyPass         /jenkins  http://localhost:8080/jenkins
ProxyPassReverse  /jenkins  http://localhost:8080/jenkins

and the url is http://my.domain.com/jenkins/ instead of http://my.domain.com:8080/jenkins

Remember to restart apache sudo service apache2 restart or another equivalent

Rewrite is another option but IMO proxy is easier to set up although it's not so powerful.