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I'm looking for a way to distribute only the french pages of an english / french site (currently hosted in Canada) to a web server hosted in France .
The english pages should be processed without any change by the current server.
I do not want to change any existing URLs.
An exemple:
The page http://www.mysite.net/a_page.php should be processed normally.
The page http://www.mysite.net/a_pagef.php (french version of the previous page) should be routed to another machine (with another ip, of course).
Is there a way to do this ? I believe I could use reverse proxying, but I could'nt find any exemple.
Am I missing an easier solution ? :-[
Note that if you use a reverse proxy instead of using a separate .fr domain, then search engines will always see the site as hosted on the English server, and not on a French server. Also, all traffic proxied to the French server will appear to originate from the English server, making tracking/logging useless, unless you set up the proxy to send the X-HTTP-FORWARDED-FOR header, and configure custom logging on the French server.
Jim
I am to be in charge of only the french content of the site. I would like to keep the good ranking of the existing french pages, and if possible I would also like to keep the same domain, which is quite popular and well referenced.
I would also like to host the pages so that I can have complete control over them (updating, adwords, etc...)
At this moment I am thinking about 2 possible solutions:
Do a permanent redirection from the existing french pages to the domain [fr.mysite.net,...] that would be hosted in my machine (just a DNS configuration). This is quite simple but I'm losing the original domain www.mysite.net.
Second solution:
Do a permanent redirection to [mysite.net...] so that I'll keep the domain, but I just don't know how I can hosts these pages to my machine: I cannot use DNS configuration as far as I know, so I should probably use reverse proxy but it seems quite complicated...
Do I miss something ?
