Redirect to another folder

[SirCawe]

Im trying to redirect all the containg from:
www.site2.com

to:
www.site1.com

In the server, I have this:
for site1.com /home/sircawe/public_html/
for site2.com /home/sircawe/site2/public_html/

So when someone write www.site2.com, I want to redirect ALL the contain for /home/sircawe/public_html, but still showing the address www.site2.com and all the containing, like www.site2.com/site.php

The /home/sircawe/site2/public_html have nothing but the .htaccess

Someone?

[jdMorgan]

> I want to redirect ALL the contain for /home/sircawe/public_html, but still showing the address www.site2.com and all the containing, like www.site2.com/site.php

This is not possible with a redirect, since a redirect tells the browser to ask again for what it wanted, but using a new URL. When the browser does this, it updates its address bar to show the new URL.

If you have server admin privileges, it is possible to use a proxy through-put instead of a redirect, but this has several problems:

All requests for site1 pass through the site2 server, consuming bandwidth and CPU resources.

All requests for site1 are logged on the site2 server -- polluting the logs with extra requests, and ruining the usefulness of any 'statistics' on the server for use in marketing.

If the site2 server fails, site1 becomes inaccessible.

All requests for site1 are logged as coming from site2 -- The information to determine the actual "user" is lost, unless an X-Forwarded-For HTTP header is sent from site2 to site1, and that header is logged on site1 instead of the usual Remote-Addr header. This requires server admin privileges on both servers.

All pages on site1 and site2 appear to be duplicates, and will compete with each other for links and for ranking in search engines. As a result, neither will do as well as they should. This is sometimes called (erroneously) a "duplicate-content penalty." It is not in fact a penalty, but rather just that you have created additional "competition" for your own pages.

If both sites share the same filespace, then an internal rewrite (not a redirect) can be used to do what you ask. But again, the duplicate-content problem will assure that neither site's pages rank as well as they should. Typically, this would be implemented using using Apache mod_rewrite -- See the Apache documentation for more information.

All-in-all, though, it's not really a very good idea.

Jim

[SirCawe]

Its not possible to do that with .htaccess?

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerAdmin [e-mail]
 DocumentRoot /public_html
 ServerName domain0.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerAdmin [e-mail]
 DocumentRoot /public_html
 ServerName domain1.com
</VirtualHost>