Balancing to Tomcat servers

Assuming you want to send traffic to the pool of tomcat servers whenever the host header does not have ":8080", you can use something like this:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { not ([HTTP::host] contains ":8080") } {
pool POOL_TOMCAT_Servers
}
}

Hi,

you must :

• create the VS listening on port 80
• create pool with member port 8080
• create an irule or LTM policy redirecting URI / to /path_to_app/index.jsp
• change Tomcat configuration with following configuration to write response page with external URLs (to prevent rewrite needs on the F5):

file /etc/tomcat6/server.xml

if the external service is HTTPS: