Hi all,

I have a question regarding redirect. I have a website today on a single server which I will split on two servers.

www.domainname.com will point to server 1
www.domainname.com/en should point to server 2

Tomorrow I will update the DNS to point to server 1 but how do I setup the redirect to server 2 the easiest way? Something about a virtual directory seems to be the way to go but I am not sure...

I need to go live within 12 hours so any help is much appreciated.

By the way, I am using IIS.

Thanks,

You cannot point different locations at single domain to different IPs. You can point www.domain to server 1 and en.domain to server 2. If you want to handle requests for www.domain/en/ exactly at another server you will have to do some tricks. This will require installing some lightweight http frontend like nginx or lighttpd on server 1 and then setting up proxying so that requests to www.domain/ were proxied to localhost and requests to www.domain/en/ were proxied to server 2. But in this case the client will always connect to server 1 and thus you will send all traffic from server 2 twice: from server 2 to server 1 and then from server 1 to client. This will not be a problem if both servers are installed into the same rack and are connected through private VLAN, but if you will transfer sufficient amounts of proxied data between servers through outer net you may waste a lot of money.

Thanks for your reply mtishetsky!

the servers will be in the same rack so I guess your second solution would work for me. It sounds a bit tricky though... I tried with a redirect in IIS to an IP-address and although it worked, the URL changed to the IP-address which I do not want.

I guess I have to go for your first solution.

Thanks for your help!

Do you need to do a directory like that? Why not do en.domainname.com You can point that to a different IP with a separate A record in your DNS! And then even use IIS to redirect domainname.com/en to en.domainname.com with a 301