How to properly mask/redirect urls in apache httpd?

Question

I have one apache httpd server running on a hostname:

firsthostname

I have another apache httpd server running on another hostname:

secondhostname

I want to make it such that whenever someone goes to:

firsthostname, it redirects to secondhostname. If the user goes to firsthostname/something, what the user actually sees is the as if the user went to "secondhostname/something", though the "secondhostname" is masked

What and how do I configure this on the httpd installed on "firsthostname"? I am running on a windows machine.

Answer 1

You can do this using apache rewrite or apache redirect

RewriteEngine  on
RewriteRule    ^/foo  /bar

Or

Redirect /foo.html /bar.html

Check out this documentation

Answer 2

You will need a DNS server. You can then simply setup a CNAME record to map firsthostname to secondhostname .