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chris_wood
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Jun 26, 2023

Big-IP LTM - load balancing incoming request to 2 different 'paths' on Member Pool

Hi, A strange request has come in :).  I donlt think it's possible but thought I'd reach out just encase some has an answer. We have a VS setup that load balances to 2 different servers. In this e...
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chris_wood
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Jun 26, 2023

Hi Mohamed,

Thanks for your reply.

Basically, we want to load balance (round robin for e.g) to 2 servers in the member pool - but before passing it on to the servers, we need the Virtual Server to re-write the URL path to a different specific folder on each server:

The reading I've done so far suggests when we use the HTTP::redirect iRule, the F5 replies directly to the client and doesn't load balance (even then sending to 2 different locations is a big ask). 

In the mean time, we are looking into completing this task using re-directs on the individual servers, as I think that makes more sense.

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Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh
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Jun 26, 2023

Thanks chris_wood , 

> So you have a pool has two ( servers/pool members ) 
> and Roundrobin Load balancing technique.
> After selecting server1 for example , modify request from ( http://example ) to  (https://server1/folder/folder/server1)  and same for Server2 but with server2 path. 

That's all ? 

Let me try to test it in my lab and reply back to you

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    chris_wood
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    Jun 26, 2023

    Yes - that's everything!