Subdirectory pointing at different website – possible?

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I think what I’m asking is impossible but here goes.

I have two sites, one is wordpress hosted on an apache server. Let’s call this one mydomain.com

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The other is on IIS and let’s call that one blog.mydomain.com

Is it possible to somehow have a subdirectory e.g. mydomain.com/blog point at blog.mydomain.com ?

As the two sites are built on different platforms I’m currently having to keep them on separate domains but ideally I’d like them to behave like this – wordpress as my main site and the subfolder is my .Net site.

I know if it was all .Net and IIS it would be possible to have a virtual directory point at a different app but this isn’t a realistic possibility for me.

I think this is going to be impossible to achieve but any advice or recommendations would be most welcome.
Thanks

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  2. Apache has a ProxyPass directive which will allow you to do this.

    Define it in your VirtualHost configuration of mydomain.com as follows:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName mydomain.com
        ServerAlias mydomain.com

        ProxyPass /blog http://blog.mydomain.com/ retry=0
        ProxyPassReverse /blog http://blog.mydomain.com/

        # other directives

</VirtualHost>

    You will also need to enable mod_proxy for Apache (and possibly other modules) as listed in the Apache documentation here.

    I will still say that what you are trying to do is not the ideal way to access the site. Besides the point that there will be a performance overhead due to the proxy operations, some site configurations are such that they are tied to a single domain and folder path. In such cases either the site will work with quirks (dangerous) or not work for the user at all (less dangerous). When I say dangerous I mean the user might be tricked into thinking that the site is working and perform an irreversible site operation which may be stuck in limbo or cause data corruption.