Rewrite rule www.example.com to example.com/www without changing url in browser

Question

I want to make a rewrite that under the url www.example.com will be site example2.com/www but I want it not to change the url in browser to example2.com/www/.

So after entering in browser http://www.example.com I will see site under http://example2.com/www but in browser it still be http://www.example.com

I tried something like:

 RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/www [L]

I put this in virtualhost config of www.example.com it works but with changing url.

Is there any different way to rewrite http and https in this manner?

EDIT... I'm using LiteSpeedBalancer and www.example.com is virtualhost only to show example.com/www (So no contest is under www.example.com this domain is only to rewrite to example.com/www)

It's complicated and at first I made example with www.example.com rewriting to example2.com/www to point that those are different virtualhosts.

Answer 1

A workaround is to use frame forwarding in your control panel.

Answer 2

It is possible to achieve what you describe with mod_proxy but as others have commented you need to ask yourself "Why?". This would be a whole lot simpler to virtual host on example2.com

In any case, you will need the mod_proxy mod_proxy_http and possibly mod_proxy_html modules loaded

Then something like this in your Apache config

# turn the general proxy off
ProxyRequests Off

# pass requests for / to the backend /www
ProxyPass / http://example2.com/www

# fix and redirect headers from the back end
ProxyPassReverse / http://example2.com/www

# fix any domains in cookies from the backend to the frontend.
ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain example2.com example.com

# fix any cookie paths form /www to the front end /
ProxyPassReverseCookiePath / /www

Then if the html on the backend site still manages to bring back the /www then you can open your can of worms, load mod_proxy_html and try:

ProxyHTMLEnable On
ProxyHTMLURLMap /www /

There's a lot more you can do with mod_proxy_html in the config guide