Ross wrote:

> Hi there,
> I have a existing Apache web server for my company www.company.com with the
> IP of 100.100.100.100.
> Now, I am planning to move it from an ISP to another, so it's IP address has
> to be changed, and it would be 200.200.200.200.
> To zero the downtime, I'd like to set up a new server at the new ISP with
> the new IP, and keep the old server at the current ISP for a while and
> forward its access to http://200.200.200.200.
> The question is how to set up the forwarding/redirection on the current
> Apache, and it won't change the address in the browser's address field?
> Thanks a lot in advance,

I think to not change the address, you'd need some tricky RewriteEngine
rule. Why not change the address?

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