Using .htaccess to Domain Map Typepad

Typepad just added domain mapping. They say they need to have your ISP DNS map for you. This is not completely true. If you are allowed to have an .htaccess file where you are hosted and can use mod_rewrite, then you can do this without remapping your DNS. Apache provides for proxying in the .htaccess file. This is what it looks like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ http://blinne.blogs.com/blog/$1 [P]
RewriteRule ^blog$ http://blinne.blogs.com/blog/ [P]
RewriteRule ^/$ http://blinne.blogs.com/ [P]
RewriteRule ^$ http://blinne.blogs.com/ [P]
RewriteRule ^about.html$ http://blinne.blogs.com/about.html [P]
RewriteRule ^foaf.rdf$ http://blinne.blogs.com/foaf.rdf [p]

I went to the control panel and then to the domain map, lied about DNS working, mapped www.blinne.org to blinne.blogs.com, and finally activated it. The result looked like this:

And I am now running www.blinne.org!

Comments

[alec]

thanks so much for the helpful tip. a lot better than messing with the DNS. if you get a chance please confirm that the tip is still working or if you have revised any part of it.

all the best.

[Rich]

It still works just fine. For some reason, though, others have had trouble replicating this on other ISPs. One downside of the technique is that you will be "charged" for bandwidth both by Six Apart and your ISP. I have a more complete description that includes an explanation of the htaccess syntax here.

[Flavian]

hi i just want to know how can i redirect page from another site usin .htaccess

i.e. user clicks on my url(1) --GOES 2---> ANOTHER URL(2) --BUT This ANOTHER URL IS REDIRECTed TO THE SITE WHICH D USER CLICKED THATS MY URL---> MY site(1)

(1)-->(2)-->(1)

all this usin my url(1)

pls mail me @ devilzoner@hotmail.com