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Title says my entire question. I think I saw someone forward domain.com to example.com/subfolder and have spent about a week trying to figure out how to best do this..

My goal is to have user type in domain.com?id=cow and go to example.com/subfolder/index.php?id=cow, yet still see domain.com?id=cow in the address bar.

I've messed with masking, DNS, looked a little into htcaccess (i've done very very little in htcaccess) I'm really at a loss as to what to type into google to find what i'm trying to do, any guidance would be appreciated!

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Quick and dirty: option one is to use iFrames on the http://domain.com/?id=cow to show the content of http://example.com/subfolder/index.php?id=cow and option two is (since it's PHP) to actually get the contents of the (remote?) website and render it where you want it (use cURL or file_get_contents or something). – ionFish Jan 4 at 3:20

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You may want to do this with mod_rewrite on domain.com. A simple RewriteRule to redirect your example would be:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/subfolder/index.php [L,QSA]

The ^(*.)$ captures any request on domain.com.

http://example.com/subfolder/index.php is where you want people to end up

The L tells mod_rewrite to stop matching and go. QSA stands for Query String Appended and should preserve the query string.

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