Apache virtual hosting url redirect from one domain to other domain without showing the url in the browser

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Apache virtual hosting url redirect from one domain to other domain without showing the url in the browser?

Full window size iframe. Otherwise you could ajax-fetch a page from the other server but that is not a redirect. — Dave S, Jun 20 '17 at 20:39
No, I have need to redirect from abc.com/new to xyz.com without using ajax or iframe. — vivek sharma, Jun 20 '17 at 20:42
Browsers won't let you do that. They don't want to let site xyz impersonate site abc. — Dave S, Jun 20 '17 at 20:44

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 21 '17 at 18:02

That's not redirect, that's called Reverse Proxy.

Example:

ProxyPass /url-path/ http://backend.example.com/url-path/

This will reverse proxy all requests to /url-path/whatever to the server backend specified

More information at:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/reverse_proxy.html

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 01 '18 at 05:23

No, there isn't a way to do this with .htaccess if your sites are on different servers. Doing so would present big security hole, imagine if someone does this with a bank´s website.

However, if both are hosted on the same server try this on your .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1.com$ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^http://www.domain1.com$
  RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.domain2.com$1 [P]
</IfModule>

If you own both domains you could accomplish this with domain name forwarding. Check the options in your registrar (maybe godaddy, or dns managers like cloudflare).

Apache virtual hosting url redirect from one domain to other domain without showing the url in the browser

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