I am wondering if anyone has a mixed Drupal site and other HTML/php/asp pages (outside of Drupal) serving their website. We are doing a slow migration from our old ASP/vbscript to Drupal, and we'd like to deploy one subarea of our site at a time. There's some concern here from some others about having a Drupal install sitting in and amongst currently working asp pages. We have php installed on the live server, and have all of the other server requirements met. But how would you go about doing this? Right now, my development server is Drupal only.
Eventually Drupal will serve 90% of our web content. But for now we need the root of our site to stay as it is (and not go to Drupal) and then as we're ready to go live with our subareas, be able to allow Drupal to serve the pages for those subareas. I would imagine this would require some re-writing of a web.config file?
The other thought would be to somehow point the live server to the development server until we're ready to go completely Drupal. But that seems like a lot of unnecessary redirects that could be broken down the road.
Thanks for your help and any insight you might have.
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Reverse Proxy
FWIW, we've had lots of success doing this using reverse proxy. We've set up DNS for, say, www.example.com to point to a reverse proxy server which then directs traffic as necessary. In this way we can host www.example.com using static HTML via one web server, but www.example.com/something/ from another. We do this all the time with various Drupal and non-Drupal web sites.