A bit of a strange question but we have a blog that we’ve been running on Tumblr for a long time and managed to build up a fair amount of traffic. We now want to move the main content over to a wordpress post but keep the smaller posts on tumblr.
Effectively we want the http://ourdomain.com to go to the wordpress site unless the url is in the form of http://ourdomain.com/post/* and then it would show the tumblr post
Any ideas how we would go about doing that?
All requests to a hostname (
ourdomain.com, in this case) will go to one server, while everything after it (/post/*) will just be the request to that server. This means that you can’t have two servers under the same hostname⦠unless you set up a proxy on the server.It’s not really practical, but you can set urls starting with
/post/to be proxied from a Tumblr at different address (e.g.ourdomain.tumblr.com). Although, this means that posts will also be available onourdomain.tumblr.com/post/*The saner alternative would be to just have a separate Tumblr on a subdomain like
blog.ourdomain.comand keep the main site on WordPress.This works because
blog.ourdomain.comis a different hostname fromourdomain.comand therefore it can be pointed to a different server.