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Sorry about the title, I'm not quite sure what to call what I'm trying to do.

Our university department (distance ed.) has two servers: a WordPress-only server and a main/everything else server.

Blog url: blog.distance.school.com

Everything else url: distance.school.com

I want to create a WordPress site that lives at: blog.distance.school.com/facultyresources, but when people access it, I want them to see it at: distance.school.com/facultyresources.

Is this masking? Proxying? I'm not even sure.

tl;dr:

— WP will be installed at blog.distance.school.com/facultyresources

— users will access at: distance.school.com/facultyresources

Thanks for any advice you might have!

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  • Which web server run on both server?
    – j0k
    Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 12:46

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Since you're not answering about the web server running on both server, I will give you 2 options:

  • on the web server level
  • on the client level

Web Server Level

If the web server is Apache, you can use the module mod_proxy in particular the proxy pass directive. Just add this conf on the distance.school.com and it will fullfill your request:

<Location /facultyresources/>
    ProxyPass http://blog.distance.school.com/facultyresources/
</Location>

The client level

Use a frameset & frame to perform a mask. But user will still be able to access the other url, the one with blog. inside. The index.html at distance.school.com/facultyresources :

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <title>Blog</title>
</head>

<frameset cols="*">
  <frame src="http://blog.distance.school.com/facultyresources/" scrolling="no" resize="no" marginwidth="0">
</frameset>

</html>
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  • Sorry j0k! I was refreshing my profile page, but it didn't tell me I had a new comment. Thanks v. much for your answer. I'm interested in server-side redirection. It looks like your suggestion with mod_proxy should do the trick. I'll report back. Thanks for the help.
    – saltcod
    Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 14:31

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