Faking Server Location?

First off, let me explain that I have no bad intentions when I say 'faking server location', I just do not know if there is a technical term for what I would like to do!

I starting a commerce site which HAS to be hosted offshore due to where the payments are being processed and the legislation around the industry. However I would still like it to appear to be hosted in the UK, and the relevant sub domains hosted in the relevant country, for example france.domain.com appearing to be hosted in France.

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Dave

 

Server location is usually determined via either IP address or traceroute to the site/IP, so in other words it will still reflect to where it is physically located. There's no way to mask an IP location, other than perhaps using a VPN but that's usually client-side and not on a server

 

Ah ok, thanks for the answer anyhow.

If anyone can think of a way then please let me know

Dave

 

Basically, there is no way or law enforcement will be extremely hard.

 

Well If you can some how get IP Connect to other then maybe you can fool some people but traceroute will always reveal you

 

you can use other web server with diff ip as proxy to the real host....

 

But that can be tracerouted

 

Dave, most of us know that gambling sites or similar can't be hosted in "x" country. So I'm guessing the UK for you. I wouldn't sweat it, just leave it how it is. Also, there isn't really a way to do what you want to do.

 

nope
not the web proxy that you used to setup in your browser, but simple tcp proxy that will forward all tcp packets that come to port 80 on proxy host to the real one.
user will never know that he gets the response from other host, he will think he is getting it from the proxy host....

 

Who is gonna check where you host?

 

your competitors who would want to take you down

 

look up nginx proxy , it is complicated and can costs a lot , but we do it all the time and it works

 

Cheers for the help gents

 

You can do by routing and mask traceroute.

 

Nginx reverse proxy can do this easily..
I had implemented this on one of my sites