Subsite on a different server to main site can this be done

Hi,

There can be two method

1. Set the redirection on www.somesite.com/estore website to windows
2. create subdomain with name estore.somesite.com on windows and point its DNS A record from Linux to windows in DNS Zone file.

From your question it is not completetly clear what you want to accomplish. Do you want 2 separate servers to be accessible directly under 1 name? Or do you want to create a config so that end-users of your website will not notice that when they request a page from estore it is actually handled by a different machine?

case 1 is impossible

case 2 can be done using mod_proxy extension to apache http server.

de2Zotjes

this is where i am getting confused, because i have been told it is possible technically for option 1

eg:

www.somesite.com -> server1 hosting this site
www.somesite.com/shop -> server 2 hosting this site.

the above is exactly what i want, but i am not sure if it is possible.

The reason primarily is because the main website is linux hosted. but our ecommerce site is windows based solution.

de2Zotjes can you provide some information on how the mod_proxy extension would work, (not just links to other websites, but an actual example?)

Thankyou, this confirms and works as we wanted it to. we just needed to set the settings correctly in apache.

Apologies my terminology was incorrect!