Moving a blog from unique domain to root /blog/ but on 2 different servers? HELP!
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I have a main site hosted on one server, I have the blog hosted on another server - BOTH of which my team has FULL control over. I ultimately want the blog to reside on the root domain:
My network team is saying "DNS will not allow this to happen, the resolution will ultimately have to be on blog.website.com"
Has anyone out there done this? Is it even possible?
HELP!
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Try using http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/. It's very easy to install and use.
Then go http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/doc/examples.htm#proxy to get the code to create the reverse proxy.
Just remember, this won't change any of the links in your content, so if they're full urls(with the domain name in them) then you'll end up getting links back to the subdomain.
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Sorry, I hate IIS I use apache
But you may want to contact the poster of the blog, you may be able to hire them for final configuration issues
I also know that Alan Mosley (is his name here on SEO) is REALLY knowledgeable on IIS, so you may be able to contract him?
You could also place a post on Odesk, with your exact requirements, current issues ect... and place a job for contractors to apply to
Shane
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Any resources you can point me to for IIS6? the plug-ins were downloaded but something is still up with the configuration. I could not say what though and I am FAR from a network expert...
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Hi,
There are MANY issues one could encounter, and sadly to say without being on your network team, and knowledge of your topology it would be a hard guess...
Below is a great resource; and runs through many common pitfalls of Apache Mod_Proxy
http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies
in general though these changes should not take down your root domain, so I think there must be something being missed....
If you use IIS, you may need this 3rd party plugin
http://managedfusion.com/products/url-rewriter/
Create a gateway server that brings together all your companies proprietary web application under one standardized schema through the proxy feature.
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So while this was spelled out, its been a month now and my team still cannot figure out how this works and I am not sure why. It looks so simple I just don't get it. I am being told that when they do it the site breaks. Do you know of anyone that has had this problem before?
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Thank you Nakul, Shane and Cyrus so much for your help. Keeping my fingers crossed I get NO push back from those who have to make this happen for us.
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You basically have two options, both explored by the other community members (I thumbed them up)
Solution One - Migrate your Wordpress blog to your primary domain. This would involve moving the files, the database, the whole shebang. There are various guides online how to do this:
Pay close attention to the Yoast post, as he has some suggestions for 301'ing your old URLs to your new URLs.
Solution Two - Reverse Proxy, as James suggested.(big thumbs up!)
In either case, consider this the same as a site migration, and be sure to catalog and redirect your URLs appropriately. Richard Baxter wrote a great couple of posts about this:
Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.
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Its like you read my mind!!!!
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If it is a self hosted wordpress blog vs a wordpress.com hosted blog, you can definitely ste it up in a sub-folder. No doubts.
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HeHe I love network and IS teams, something can always "Not Be done"
Where there is a will there is a way, they just did not want to look for it
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Thank You!!!!! I will attempt it!
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It is in fact a wordpress blog. It is being hosted on one server, while the root site is hosted on another server. Right now our blog is on a unique domain but I want it on the root of the site mywebsite.com/blog/ - but with it being on two separate servers I am being told there is no way to resolve this.
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Hi,
I would have your network team look at reverse proxy..
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-a-reverse-proxy-and-how-can-it-help-my-seo
This will allow you using either IIS or Apache modules to use a reverse proxy to turn blog.website.com into www.mysite.com/blog/ even if they are hosted on two completely different servers
hope this helps!
w00t!
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What kind of blog is it ? Is it a wordpress.com or typepad.com or blogspot.com hosted blog ? That could be the only reason why you could not use a sub-folder.
I would recommend using wordpress.org hosted blog and install it on /blog/ and then import content from your existing blog, whatever platform it is, I am pretty sure there are import plugins available in the wordpress plugin database to import your content seamlessly.
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