Pointing a domain at a nested subdirectory on a second domain

[Cary Gordon]

I have probably missed some key details, but since these domains are
on the same server, have you considered setting up a virtual host for
newdomain.org that has something/dir1/dir2 as its root?

And you wouldn't need to do any rewrite voodoo.

Cary

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess
<coral at sheldon-hess.org> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a domain name (let's call it newdomain.org) that I need to point to a
> subdirectory of a subdirectory on another domain (olddomain.org/dir1/dir2/).
> For political reasons, I need to hide all references to olddomain.org, if at
> all possible.
>
> My original plan was to set up a forward, with masking, using the DNS
> service we use. That worked OK, but I really want all of the URLs rewritten,
> which that wouldn't do--you could still see olddomain.org in mouse-overs of
> links. And, obviously, there are some other concerns with that approach (for
> instance, you aren't really supposed to be able to do a DNS forward to
> anything but a fully qualified domain name, so it shouldn't have worked;
> also, it has the potential to really screw up Google's indexing of the
> site).
>
> So now I have newdomain.org set up with an address record (Host/A) on DNS,
> pointing to the IP address of olddomain.org. I know I need to do a rewrite
> of some kind in Apache, on olddomain.org's server. Not a problem. I have
> access. But, for the life of me, I can't get it to work. I tried a
> VirtualHost entry in httpd.conf, but that led only to pain--or to nothing
> happening. Nothing in between.
>
> The code below, in olddomain.org's base directory's .htaccess file, gets as
> far as forwarding requests for olddomain.org to newdomain.org/dir1/, but 1)
> nothing I do is getting it to make the extra jump to dir2, and 2) it isn't
> rewriting the URL.
>
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?newdomain.org$ [NC]
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/dir1/dir2/ [NC]
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /dir1/dir2/$1 [L]
>
> I've been looking at Apache documentation and random bulletin boards all
> day, and my eyes are crossing. Can anyone help me? I'd be really grateful!
>
> Thank you!
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> Coral Sheldon-Hess
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