Passing requests through my ISP PHP to my local fixed IP

[seanryder]

Hi,

 

I have a demo application that runs on my local fixed IP, say http://x.x.x.x/cgi-bin/myapp.exe/search?item=1&cost=2

 

I'm new to PHP, is it possible to prevent people seeing my x.x.x.x ip address by putting a PHP file on my external ISP site and passing the request from there to my local server here?

 

I've had a look at redirect in Apache and PHP but they still show the x.x.x.x in the browser.

 

Is this possible/impossible?, Thanks.

 

[trq]

Just block port 80 access via your firewall if you dont want people to access the site.

[MadTechie]

maybe .htaccess

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/icons/(.+) - [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://subdomain.domain.com/$1 [P,L]

[seanryder]

Thanks for the help guys..

 

I tried .htaccess but doesn't seem to do anything I'll try again later once I get more familiar with it (I tried it locally on apache xp and my isp Apache Linux/Unix).

 

I don't mind people having access to my x.x.x.x site, it's just that it doesn't look as good as a registered domain.

 

I'm a bit surprised that PHP doesn't have a technique for obtaining its page content from an executable on another site, I can't find the link but I thought I saw an ASP example that uses something like Response.content = (something with querystring..?)  - anything similar in PHP in case .htaccess doesn't work for me?