redirecting without changing URL

Question

i want to redirect domain domain1.com to domain2.com completely but without changing domain1.com URL. i thought i could do that with .htaccess but i found out that it is not po

Answer 1

If both domains point at the same server then you can setup your apache config to point both domains at the same document root.

NameVirtualHost *


ServerName domain1.com
DocumentRoot /www/mysite



ServerName domain2.com
DocumentRoot /www/mysite

However, I would recommend domain2.com redirects (with a 302 redirect in the .htaccess) because it will improve your search engine optimisation, as both sites will be considered as one. So if a GoogleBot finds domain2.com as a link in another site, it will add it as a pagerank to domain1.com.