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| Posted by keith007, 08-22-2012, 03:40 PM |
| Hi All,
I have a domain www.domain.com that features a vbulletin forum on
I would like to install Joomla based CMS to a folder but woried that if this gets comprimised it could effect my vbulletin script
is it possible to have www.domain.com/joomla on another server, i have done this with sub domains but would like to do it with just folders
Any help welcomed
Cheers
Keith
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| Posted by Imthatguyhere, 08-22-2012, 03:48 PM |
| I believe a rewrite would do it: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/remapping.html
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| Posted by barbus, 08-22-2012, 04:02 PM |
| I agree, rewrite is right decision. Here some additional manuals:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_ht...te_module.html
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects...ocs_ModRewrite
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| Posted by keith007, 08-22-2012, 04:09 PM |
| Would it be simple with a joomla installation amd joomla's rewrites in action
Domain A rewriting towards server 2 that has rewrites in action as well
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| Posted by Imthatguyhere, 08-22-2012, 04:11 PM |
| Yes, you can have many rewrites in a .htaccess file. It should be fine.
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| Posted by keith007, 08-22-2012, 04:47 PM |
| cheers all
I will give this ago
Keith
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| Posted by steven99, 08-22-2012, 04:52 PM |
| As the folder would be within the domain's root for web space, there isn't a way to have the joomla install on a separate server without some behind the scenes proxying to that second server. You can use rewrites to do /joomla to then redirect to http://anotherserver.com/joomla but the address bar would change as it is handled as s redirect since you can't rewrite to urls. (imagine rewriting site.com/phish to bank.com to pull some of their content to make a site look like the real site)
So, to do this, using apache or nginx to proxy /joomla to the second server would be the way to go. However, using /joomla to redirect to joomla.domain.com as you have done in the past may be the easiest and best portable way. In any way you set it up though, you'll need a subdomain or IP for the proxying / redirect to be done to the second server.
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| Posted by Imthatguyhere, 08-22-2012, 04:54 PM |
| That's actually true. I didn't really think about it, but I'm fairly particular using Rewrite in the article I posted causes a redirect.
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| Posted by steven99, 08-22-2012, 05:02 PM |
| Yeah, the article is sound information and you're right it does a redirect which would cause the address bar in the browser to change. If that is okay with the OP, then OP run with it.
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| Posted by keith007, 08-22-2012, 07:32 PM |
| Hi all
I think my best bet would be create the cms to a sub domain ww2 on my second server
Server one main forum www.domain.com
Server two cms. ww2.domain.com/joomla
This would give the end user the appearance of not moving away and keep everything isolated for security
All using dns entries
This should be do-able
Cheers
Keith
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