Using htaccess to serve sitemap from a remote server

Question

Hi is it possible to display my sitemap from a remote server like its residing on a main server

say mydomain.com/sitemaps/filename.xml

will get its content from

remoteserver.com/sitemapts/mydomain-sitemap-filename.xml

and how do i do it in htaccess.

Thanks..

Answer 1

Yes, but it requires that mod_proxy has been enabled on the server. If you don't control the server yourself, this could be a problem.

Assuming it is available though, and mod_rewrite is also available to you, you could something like this in a .htaccess file in your site root:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^sitemaps/(.*)\.xml$ http://www.example.com/sitemaps/%{HTTP_HOST}-sitemap-$1.xml [P]