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[linux_lover]

Hi everyone

Does anyone know if its possible to seamlessly redirect content from one server to another for example:

123.124.125.1/content/index.htm

needs to look like its coming from

www.website.com/content/index.htm

This is nothing to do with cloaking or trying to fool spiders, its just a case of 'stapling' more content onto a server that I have no access to.
This is easy on the same server via apache config - not sure about pointing to another.

Not sure if 301's/mod_rewrite would cover it??

Thanks

Lilo

[chrishirst]

Lilo, While you could do it with 301s it wouldn't "bolt on" more content to the host site. The browser address would change to the new location.

You could use a 302 redirect which would show the remote page without changing the address, but the only way to pull more content from a remote server would be to use some "scraping" code and insert it into the target page.
Neither are techniques to use unless you are aware of all the implications (duplicates, plagiarism and the SEs aversion to 302s )

Failing that a full page IFrame would work but not without other problems of course.

[linux_lover]

hmmm its a bit iffy I know.

It will probably be a few flash files populated by content from mysql db.

Reading up on virtual hosts in apache, it seems I can point a directory on their server to my Ip, whcih might work

Edited by linux_lover, 14 December 2004 - 05:58 AM.