Htaccess internal redirect from domain to another url

Question

Yet another .htaccess rewrite question... But can't find a way to make it work

My goal :

• http://one.domain.com -> http://another.domain.com/specific/url
• I'm not looking for a redirect , but a rewrite .
• one.domain.com is a vhost alias on another.domain.com vhost.
• No need for URL rest ($1...) it can be a perfect match (one-page site).

My best shot below makes a redirect, which I don't want.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^one\.domain\.com$     
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://another.domain.com/specific/url [L]

Answer 1

This cannot be done using RewriteRule - from the Apache docs :

Absolute URL

If an absolute URL is specified, mod_rewrite checks to see whether the hostname matches the current host. If it does, the scheme and hostname are stripped out and the resulting path is treated as a URL-path. Otherwise, an external redirect is performed for the given URL.

You may want to use a workaround, eg reading the page http://another.domain.com/specific/url with Curl and then outputting the contents using echo() (if you're using PHP). Anyway it looks like a hard-to-maintain solution.