Home/ Questions/Q 6476671
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-25T06:51:12+00:00

I was wondering if there was a way to basically host a site on

  • 0

I was wondering if there was a way to basically host a site on your server so you can run PHP, but have the actual code hosted on GitHub. In other words…

If a HTTP request went to:
http://mysite.com/docs.html

It’d request and pull in the content (via file_get_contents() or something):
https://raw.github.com/OscarGodson/Core.js/master/docs.html

Or, if they went to:
http://mysite.com/somedir/another/core.js

It’d pull down:
https://raw.github.com/OscarGodson/Core.js/master/somedir/another/core.js

I know GitHub has their own DNS servers, but id rather host it on my so i can run server side code. What would the htaccess code look like for this?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    This is beyond the capabilities of .htaccess files, if the requirement is to run the PHP embedded in the HTML stored on github.com at the server on yourserver.com simply by a configuration line like a redirect in the .htaccess file.

    A .htaccess file is typically used to provide directives to the Apache web server. These directives can indicate, for example, access permissions, popup password protection, linkages between URLs and the server’s file system, handlers for certain types of files when fetched by the server before delivery to the browser, and redirects from one URL to another URL.

    An .htaccess file can issue redirects for http://mysite.com/somedir/another/core.js to https://raw.github.com…. but then the browser will be pointed to raw.github.com, not mysite.com. Tricks can be done with frames to make this redirection less transparent to the human at the browser… but these dont affect the fact that the data comes from github.com without ever going to the server at mysite.com

    In particular, PHP tags embedded in the HTML on github.com are never received by mysite.com’s server and therefore will not run. Probably not want you want. Unless some big changes have occurred in Apache, .htaccess files will not set up that workflow. It might be possible for some expert to write an apache module to do it, but I am not sure.

    What you can do is put a cron job on mysite.com that git pull’s from github.com every few minutes. Perhaps that is what you want to do instead?

    • 0