Host domain.com in a different server than domain.com/blog

Question

How can I point the DNS in order to have /blog and / in 2 different servers?

One of them is on PHPFog (PHP hosting) and the other on Heroku (Rails Hosting).

Regards.

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 11 '11 at 11:48

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Essentially, you can't; that's not an issue for the DNS, because it only handles hostnames, not HTTP pathnames on a given host. Your choices include

Host the main site on example.com and blog on blog.example.com, in which case you can do it with the DNS - just publish the relevant A record for each zonefile entry.
Host the blog on a disposable domain name, and use ReWrite rules to proxy example.com/blog to the dispoable blog path, rewriting any links on the way through.

1) would be much easier, if you're not wedded to example.com/blog.

answered Mar 11 '11 at 11:48

MadHatter

Darn you MadHatter! - This is the better answer @donald. – Mister IT Guru Mar 11 '11 at 11:49
I'm just worried with SEO. If I use blog.domain.com I'll lose some SEO juice so I heard. – donald Mar 11 '11 at 11:56
Mister Guru: sorry! I'll try to be worse! Donald: SEO juice? – MadHatter Mar 11 '11 at 16:15

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 11 '11 at 11:49

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Use a subdomain instead: blog.domain.com - many sites do it this way.

answered Mar 11 '11 at 11:49

sapguy

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 11 '11 at 11:48

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I don't think DNS is what you need to look into to make this happen. I think you'll need to have a redirect setup, if memory serves me right.

You configure this on your webserver.

answered Mar 11 '11 at 11:48

Mister IT Guru

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