Redirection, subtitute or rewrite

Question

we have a homepage hosted by another provider in amazon, we are developing and event related page, due a SEO needs we need a redirection from http://www.example.com/event (hosted on amazon, out of our control) to http://event.example.com (hosted on our servers), but we need that the url on the user browser maintains http://www.example.com/event showing the content of http://event.example.com.

The web page develop by us in http://event.example.com is an .net IIS page, so we guess that between amazon page and our .net page we need an apache reverse proxy and probably mod_substitute/mod_rewrite help, what would be the necessary apache rules? Also any other suggestion as IIS rewrite approach would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Sorry, I mean we does not manage this service, they only do a redirection.

A "redirection" (as in an external redirect) is presumably not desirable for SEO reasons. An IFRAME (as @bjoster suggests) would require control of the content (at www.example.com/event) but again is probably not desirable from an SEO point of view.

To implement a reverse proxy requires considerable control of www.example.com, which you don't appear to have. mod_substitute/mod_rewrite are not really going to help you; you need a reverse proxy.

Unless you can intercept the request between the user and www.example.com/event (eg. you control an intermediary proxy server in a closed network) then you need "control" of www.example.com/event.

Also any other suggestion as IIS rewrite approach would be appreciated.

The user never even gets to your IIS server.

By the sounds of it, an external redirect is your only option, if you want to serve the content from http://event.example.com - but the URL in the browser will naturally change to http://event.example.com.