Basic redirecting to a modern server, while keeping the domain name

Apologies if this has been beaten to death, but all I've been able to find are overly technical articles.

My question is simple:

A friend at the university wants to start a website. He wants to use a university domain name (http://university.com/my-awesome-website). The problem is that I want to build it with WordPress, but the university is still using PHP4, so WP isn't possible!!

Can I setup a .htaccess file or similar so that 开发者_如何学Gowhen someone goes to http://university.com/my-awesome-website, the urls look right, but the pages are actually coming from WordPress on a different server?

Is this what they call 'domain masking' or is it a '301' redirect?

Help appreciated!

You could use an IFrame to load the wordpress site in and make it look like it's being served up on the same site.