Domain URL masking

Question

I am currently hosting the contents of a site with ProviderA. I have a domain registered with ProviderB. I want users to access the contents (www.providerA.com/sub/content) by visiting www.providerB.com. A domain forward is easy enough and works as intended, however, unless I embed the site in a frame (which is a big no-no), the actual URL reads www.providerA.com/sub/content despite the user inputting www.providerB.com.

I really need a solution for this. A domain masking without the use of a frame. I'm sure this has been done before. An .htaccess domain rewrite?

Your help would be hugely appreciated! I'm going nuts trying to find a solution.

Answer 1

For Apache

• Usual way: setup mod_proxy. The apache on providerB becomes a client to providerA's apache. It gets the content and sends it back to the client.
• But looks like you only have .htaccess. So no proxy, you need full configuration access for that.

So you cannot, see: How to set up proxy in .htaccess

If you have PHP on providerB

Setup a proxy written in PHP. All requests to providerB are intercepted by that PHP proxy. It gets the content from providerA and sends it back. So it does the same thing as the Apache module. However, depending on the quality of the implementation, it might fail on some requests, types, sizes, timeouts, ...

Search for "php proxy" on the web, you will see a couple available on GitHub and others. YMMV as to how difficult it is to setup, and the reliability.

No PHP but some other server side language

Obviously that could be done in another language, I checked PHP because that is what I use the most.

The best solution would be to transfer the content to providerB :-)