Masking redirect?

[Julius Profile]

Hi I have some rules on a proxy server that will redirect to another domain but I wanna mask it. Is this possible?

Right now I have :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_Host} ^somedomain.co.uk$
RewriteProxy ^/(/)?$ http\://otherdomain.co.uk/hub/3/Home [NC,U,L,R]

It redirects fine but it does not mask the URL, is there any way to mask it please?

Many thanks!

[Julius Profile]

Also is there any way to redirect somedomain.co.uk to otherdomain.co.uk ? Right now the above rule doesn't work, but if I type in http://otherdomain.co.uk/hub/3/Home in the browser it works fine...

Instead of RewriteProxy, I also tried RewriteRule but no luck...

[Anton]

Hello,

The rule you provided is a mixture of redirect and proxy.
To mask redirect to another domain you need proxy:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_Host} ^somedomain\.co\.uk$
RewriteProxy (.*) http://otherdomain.co.uk/hub/3/Home/$1 [NC]

If it doesn't work as expected, please enable logging in httpd.conf by putting

RewriteLogLevel 9

and provide rewrite.log records for the test request.

[Julius Profile]

Hi I have switched on log level 9 and here's what I got in Rewrite.log:

86.170.251.28 86.170.251.28 Fri, 20-Feb-2015 11:53:52 GMT [otherdomain.co.uk/sid#1][rid#409924185048/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /store/ShowMessage.aspx?checkcookie=true&c=1&StoreID=-1&ErrorCode=3
86.170.251.28 86.170.251.28 Fri, 20-Feb-2015 11:53:52 GMT [otherdomain.co.uk/sid#1][rid#409924185048/initial] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
86.170.251.28 86.170.251.28 Fri, 20-Feb-2015 11:53:52 GMT [otherdomain.co.uk/sid#1][rid#409924185048/initial] (3) applying pattern '(.*)' to uri '/ustore/ShowMessage.aspx'
86.170.251.28 86.170.251.28 Fri, 20-Feb-2015 11:53:52 GMT [otherdomain.co.uk/sid#1][rid#409924185048/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='rpmxmedia.co.uk' pattern='^ somedomain\.co\.uk$' => not-matched

My problem is the rule as specified: http://otherdomain.co.uk/store/3/home when typed in a browser it works, but when the rule is defined, and the somedomain.co.uk is visited, it supposedly redirects to http://otherdomain.co.uk/store/3/home however goes to http://otherdomain.co.uk/store/ShowMess ... rrorCode=3

I don't know where that came from?! BTW http://otherdomain.co.uk/store/3/home is also using Helicon to redirect to actually http://otherdomain.co.uk/store/login.aspx?storeid=3

[Anton]

Hello,

From the log I see that you use 'somedomain' and 'otherdomain' as is which are not your real domain names.
Can you show me all the rules you have for each site.
And provide the log after you fix the domains in the rules so that it becomes:
RewriteCond: input='rpmxmedia.co.uk' pattern='^rpmxmedia\.co\.uk$' => matched

[Julius Profile]

Thanks, actually can I email to get support instead as I prefer not to open my client's rules. Thanks

[Anton]

I've already responded to your email. Let's continue our communication there.