Mapping URL to remote file system

sharath reddy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> How can i map URL to a file system on remote box?
> 
> .. if my apache is running as  www.example.com 
> <http://www.example.co
m/test> , then if i want to serve content for 
> www.example.com/test <http://www.example.co
m/test> from different box 
> other than local server
> 
> Any suggestions?

presuming by "different box" you mean another
webserver, mod_rewrite 
comes to mind, and as it is, this link here (not all to
deeply hidden in 
the doc pages  sports
sort of a howto: 
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/rewriteguide.html

suerte, dave

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On 4/17/07, detlev von davidson <apachedpit.de> wrote:
>
>
> sharath reddy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How can i map URL to a file system on remote box?
> >
> > .. if my apache is running as  www.example.com
> > <http://www.example.co
m/test> , then if i want to serve content for
> > www.example.com/test <http://www.example.co
m/test> from different box
> > other than local server
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> presuming by "different box" you mean another
webserver, mod_rewrite
> comes to mind, and as it is, this link here (not all to
deeply hidden in
> the doc pages  sports
sort of a howto:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/rewriteguide.html

I think he's actually looking for a reverse proxy. An
introduction to
the topic is here
http:
//www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies

Joshua.

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