Website and Server Administration Forum

**monstermovie** · 10-30-2009, 02:38 PM

What's the best way to point two URLs to the same folder? If .htaccess, what's the best script?

Existing site is http://www.site1.com
New site is http://www.site2.com
The folder where index.html resides is public_html

When a user browses to site2, I want it to stay as site2 - not "resolve" to site1.

Make sense? Thanks in advance!

**chrishirst** · 10-30-2009, 03:24 PM

parking

**webwest** · 10-30-2009, 04:40 PM

Makes sense but if the files are the same for site1 and site2, Google will probably see it as duplicate content ... if that matters.

**tripy** · 10-30-2009, 07:44 PM

As far as I know, you cannot affect that with an .htaccess file, bu in the virtualhost definition of Apache.

The command is serverAlias:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  serverName site1.com
  serverAlias www.site1.com site2.com www.site2.com
  documentRoot /var/www/site1/htdocs
</Virtualhost>

**thewebhostingdi** · 10-30-2009, 11:03 PM

You will have to parked the domain so that you can view the same content which is inside the public_html folder.

**cpace1983** · 11-01-2009, 01:52 AM

As others have mentioned, setup a virtual host with site1.com, and have site2.com as an alias to that domain.