[SOLVED] Rewrite [P] to server with absolute links

[Zilvermeeuw]

Hi all!

 

I have two servers, server1 and server2. From the internet port 80 is pointed to server1. The webserver runs ok. I want to have a subdir (http://server1/server2) to get access to server2. Also from the internet. There is no direct access from the internet to server2.

 

On server1 I made a directory server2 with a .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://server2/$1 [P]

 

On server2 I have an index.html:

<a href="index2.html">index2</a><br>
<a href="/index2.html">/index2</a>

 

When I open the address http://server1/server2 in my web browser, the first link (index2.html) points to: http://server1/server2/index2.html. Which is ok.

 

The second link (/index2.html) points to: http://server1/index2.html. Which is NOT ok, because its pointing to server1 and not to server2.

 

On server2 I have other applications which uses the absolute links (with the / at the beginning).

 

How can I solve this?

 

 

[corbin]

Use a different path in the HTML.

 

 

Of course it's going to go where you tell it to go x.x.

 

 

/ means root of, so you're essentially telling it to go to the root of the website, and then index2.html (hence blah.com/index2.html).

[Zilvermeeuw]

Use a different path in the HTML.

 

OK. I made two virtual hosts, one with a proxy to the other. Now it works.

 

Thanks for the tip!