Load originalsite.com content to newsite.com url with all links working straight from newsite.com without iframe. Just php and htaccess goodness
Note: This article was published on my web development company blog and re-posted over here for enabling discussion and continuous developments
Now you want to mirror a website of someone else or your own to a new domain. You can simply set it as an addon domain if you have access to original site’s hosting control panel. But what if not? If you use htaccess redirects, it promptly redirects to original site.
Another quick way is to use iframes. Just put following code in your index.html of new domain.
[code] [/code]
But if visitor clicks a link on the page, it wont update the url on the address bar and user fill feel fishy 🙂
Here is the simple script which makes the masking work. It has two portions a php file and one htaccess file.
What php file does is, it opens the original website and grab the content to bump it back to the browser. In the process, it replaces any text with source site url to your new url. So that links on the site and all resource are called from your new domain itself. Smart! isn’t it?
[code]
# index.php
‘;
$host = preg_replace(‘/^[^\/]+\/\//’,”,$URL);
$tarray = explode(‘/’,$host);
$host = array_shift($tarray);
$URI = ‘/’ . implode(‘/’,$tarray);
$content = ”;
$fp = @fsockopen($host,80,$errno,$errstr,30);
if(!$fp) { echo “Unable to open socked: $errstr ($errno)\n”; exit; }
fwrite($fp,”GET $URI HTTP/1.0\r\n”);
fwrite($fp,”Host: $host\r\n”);
if( isset($_SERVER[“HTTP_USER_AGENT”]) ) { fwrite($fp,’User-Agent: ‘.$_SERVER[“HTTP_USER_AGENT”].”\r\n”); }
fwrite($fp,”Connection: Close\r\n”);
fwrite($fp,”\r\n”);
while (!feof($fp)) { $content .= fgets($fp, 128); }
fclose($fp);
if( strpos($content,”\r\n”) > 0 ) { $eolchar = “\r\n”; }
else { $eolchar = “\n”; }
$eolpos = strpos($content,”$eolchar$eolchar”);
$content = substr($content,($eolpos + strlen(“$eolchar$eolchar”)));
$content = str_replace($wc_source,$wc_mirror,$content);
// replaces paths with / in the begining without full url. not required unless you are in subfolder
$content = str_replace(‘href=”/’,’href=”http://’.$wc_mirror.’/’,$content);
$content = str_replace(‘src=”/’,’src=”http://’.$wc_mirror.’/’,$content);
// $fsize = filesize($fullPath);
$path_parts = pathinfo($fullPath);
$ext = strtolower($path_parts[“extension”]);
// Determine Content Type
switch ($ext) {
case “pdf”: $ctype=”application/pdf”; break;
case “exe”: $ctype=”application/octet-stream”; break;
case “zip”: $ctype=”application/zip”; break;
case “doc”: $ctype=”application/msword”; break;
case “xls”: $ctype=”application/vnd.ms-excel”; break;
case “ppt”: $ctype=”application/vnd.ms-powerpoint”; break;
case “gif”: $ctype=”image/gif”; break;
case “png”: $ctype=”image/png”; break;
case “jpeg”: $ctype=”image/jpg”; break;
case “jpg”: $ctype=”image/jpg”; break;
case “js”: $ctype=”text/javascript”; break;
case “css”: $ctype=”text/css”; break;
}
header(“Pragma: public”); // required
header(“Expires: 0”);
header(“Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0”);
header(“Cache-Control: private”,false); // required for certain browsers
header(“Content-Type: $ctype”);
header(“Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary”);
// header(“Content-Length: “.$fsize);
if( preg_match(‘/
/i’,$content) ) { echo( preg_replace(‘//i’,’‘.$base,$content,1) ); }Once the files are set with proper urls, when you go to newdomain.com , it will show you content from originalsite.com and all links will word as of newdomain.com/link.html
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what about if wc_source is a subfolder like domain.com/example?
Thanx buddy I have wasted lot of time in this code searching you have done a tremandous work. :)
Hi Remiz,
It works for a few days but today I got same message as Arash.
Any advise to solve this issue?
Thanks.
Wow.. great article. thanks a lot for sharing
I just did this but why do I get a message Object Moved. This object may be found here (link). I thought it's supposed to automatically redirect on its own. Did i do something wrong?
plase new and old domain name without "http://"
Hi again,
I do appreciate your help ;)
Hi Remiz,
Thanks for your nice tip :)
I just tried it, but when I visit my "newdomain.com" it givs me the following error:
Unable to open socked: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known (0)
any idea?
Thanks a lot for your time :)