Apache redirect to another server keeping browser address

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A have a custom website based on apache/php. I also have a wordpress blog and I would like it to be hosted in a different server.

I have tried to create a sub-domine like http://blog.mydomine.com but i would like to keep the old address (http://www.mydomine.com/corp/blog) for SEO purposes. I added the following configuration tu my .htaccess file.

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/corp/blog 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://blog.mydomine.com/$1 [L]

I would like to know if I can tell apache not to change the browser address after redirect the request. I know that I could do a 301 redirection but i would prefer to keep the old address.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!! 🙂

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  2. You could try a reverse proxy…

    ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost on
ProxyPass /corp/blog http://blog.mydomine.com/
ProxyPassReverse /corp/blog http://blog.mydomine.com/
ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /corp/blog /

    This requires mod_proxy be installed and enabled.
    Note that this will only work in the following contexts per the apache doc: server config, virtual host, directory – this means that putting it in a htaccess file won’t work.

  3. What you’re wanting isn’t really possible. It’s not Apache that’s displaying the address, it’s the web browser, and there’s no way (thankfully) to tell a web browser “go to site A, but tell the user it’s site B.”

    You could fake this behavior using a frame page on your main site, but since you’re wanting this for SEO I don’t think that would help.