Can you have the same domain name on two different servers distinguished only by a folder name

Question

Is it possible to have the same domain across two different servers distinguished by just a folder name.

E.g.

Server 1 www.domain.com/publicstuff

Server 2 www.domain.com/privatestuff

Other considerations.

• The servers might not be on the same IP range,
• The servers might not be in the same physical location
• The servers will be using different web technologies and hosts
  • Drupal/Apache, Webforms/MVC/IIS

Answer 1

As Jenny said, this is not generally possible. However, you could add a reverse proxy in front of your setup and map two external servers to two directories on your front end domain. Note that this is not necessarily possible for all web apps and might potentially increase latencies.

Answer 2

Of course it possible, CDN-services or large sites can use this way.

Example for nginx:

location /publicstuff/ {
  root /var/www;
}
location /privatestuff/ {
    proxy_pass http://192.168.0.2;
}

Users vision: www.domain.com/publicstuff/ and www.domain.com/privatestuff/ are identical, but all queries to privatestuff are proxying to another server.