1 domain.. 2 server and 2 applications

Question

i have a site like twitter.com on server one and on server two i have forum, which path is like domain.com/forum

on server one i wanted to implement wild card dns and put main domain on it. but on server two i wanted to keep forum separate, i cant give sub-domain forum.domain.com, because all its links are already put in search engines and link back to domain.com/forum.

so i was wondering, how can i put domain and wild card dns on server one and still able to give path on server 2 for domain.com/forum (as sub-folder).

any ideas?

do you think htaccess can do that job? if yes, then how?

Answer 1

You could use htaccess and mod_rewrite so domain.com/forum actually displays pages from forum.domain.com.

Maybe something like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule domain.com/forum/(.+) forum.domain.com/$1