The Map Remote tool changes the request location, per the configured mappings, so that the response is transparently served from the new location as if that was the original request.
This mapping enables you to serve all or part of one site from another. For example, you could serve a subdirectory of one site for another with a mapping from xk72.com/charles/ to localhost/charlesdev/, or serve all files with a given suffix from another site with a mapping from xk72.com/*.php to localhost/charlesdev/.
Map Remote is useful if you have a development version of a site and would like to be able to browse the live site with some of the requests being served from development. For example, you may want to serve the css and images directories from your development server. Use a mapping like live.com/css/ to dev.com/css/ or live.com/*.css to dev.com.
If you don't specify a path in the destination mapping then the path part of the URL will not be changed. If you want to map to the root directory, put a / in the destination path field.
Also see the Map Local tool, which can serve requests from local files so you can use the latest development files from your computer as if they were part of a remote website.
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