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JWhitesPro_1928's avatar
JWhitesPro_1928
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Oct 03, 2016

Best way to rewrite and choose different pool at same time

What would be the best method to achieve the following:   If incoming url starts with "/test" replace /test with just "/" and choose pool "test"   I've done some of my other pool selection wit...
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Vernon_97235's avatar
Vernon_97235
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Oct 03, 2016
when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [HTTP::path] equals "/test" } {
        HTTP::path "/"
        pool test
    }
}

This will match exactly (and only) /test and nothing else.

JWhitesPro_1928's avatar
JWhitesPro_1928
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Oct 04, 2016

I will test this but will it effectively just remove the /test so that if a user goes to:

 

myserver.com/test/documents/clinton.pdf that it would rewrite it to just /documents/clinton.pdf because that is what the backend pool server would be expecting (it wouldn't have a path for /test)