how to mask the domain

i've got a web application that is designed to be used by several clients.
each wants to make it look like the applicaiton is being run under their
domain. i don't want to give one copy of the applicaiton to each client and
have to worry about fixing bugs and doing upgrades across multiple
application distribtions, so i want to host the app off one server. short
of using frames, is there anything i can do to ensure that when the
application is requested from within acme.com, the browser's address bar
doesn't change over to myapp.com? yes, the web browser will leave the
client's domain when accessing my app, but as long as the browser's address
bar doesn't appear to change domains, i'm okay. is this do-able?

tks

In article <Bs6dnUqgn4HSOCXcRVn-2g@rogers.com>, Steven wrote:
> i've got a web application that is designed to be used by several clients.
> each wants to make it look like the applicaiton is being run under their
> domain. i don't want to give one copy of the applicaiton to each client and
> have to worry about fixing bugs and doing upgrades across multiple
> application distribtions, so i want to host the app off one server. short
> of using frames, is there anything i can do to ensure that when the
> application is requested from within acme.com, the browser's address bar
> doesn't change over to myapp.com? yes, the web browser will leave the
> client's domain when accessing my app, but as long as the browser's address
> bar doesn't appear to change domains, i'm okay. is this do-able?

Yes, depending on what myapp is, you could probably configure apache to
forward paths to other web servers. I can't recall the exact directives
(proxy or something to that effect) but that is one approach.

Another is to configure subdomains to point to the IP of your domain,
app.acme.com => myapp.com

Or, use some sort of port forwarding scheme.


You'll have to make sure all the URL's in myapp can cope with this.

Jamie
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Steven wrote:

> i've got a web application that is designed to be used by several clients.
> each wants to make it look like the applicaiton is being run under their
> domain.

Use subdomains. If Customer A's domain name is customera.com and Customer
B's domain name is customerb.com, you ask them each to create subdomains
and point them at your server:

purchase.customera.com => 12.34.56.78
buying.customerb.com => 12.34.56.78

Then use the HTTP Host header to determine which customer the visitor is
visiting, which can be used to, e.g. set a colour scheme to match the
customer's corporate image.

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"Toby Inkster" <usenet200412@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.12.11.10.21.37.246222@tobyinkster.co .uk...
> Steven wrote:
>
> > i've got a web application that is designed to be used by several
clients.
> > each wants to make it look like the applicaiton is being run under their
> > domain.
>
> Use subdomains. If Customer A's domain name is customera.com and Customer
> B's domain name is customerb.com, you ask them each to create subdomains
> and point them at your server:
>
> purchase.customera.com => 12.34.56.78
> buying.customerb.com => 12.34.56.78

interesting. i thought a subdomain had to be hosted from the same server.
tks for the tip.

>
> Then use the HTTP Host header to determine which customer the visitor is
> visiting, which can be used to, e.g. set a colour scheme to match the
> customer's corporate image.
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact
>

.oO(Steven)

>interesting. i thought a subdomain had to be hosted from the same server.
>tks for the tip.

Subdomains belong to the DNS, it doesn't matter which server they point
to. For example think of the mirror servers of some big sites:

www.php.net -> 64.246.30.37
us2.php.net -> 64.62.150.60
de2.php.net -> 217.172.179.156

This would be impossible if subdomains would have to be hosted on the
same machine.

Micha