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eirikn
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Jul 26, 2016

Can anyone help me with single apology page using data groups?

Hi, I have a VS that serves several sites. Some times, one of these sites malfunction and I want to be able to manually put it in apology in a easy way. Im thinking a datagroup with a string and...
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Make your data group look like this, maybe? Then you could write a quick API call to add or subtract hosts from the apology page and not have to worry about listing sites you don't want to take any action on/for.

 

"www.example.com := www.apology.page/example"

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

set host [class match -value [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals dg_apology_single]

 

if { $host ne "" } {

 

HTTP::redirect "https://$host"

 

unset $host

 

}

 

}

 

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eirikn
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Jul 26, 2016

Hmm, Im not sure if I follow.

 

Writing a API to manage the hosts sounds like a bit to much work. Not knowing exactly how to do so.

 

Having all my sites in the datagroup, predefined with a simple Yes/no value will be easy for others to manage.

 

If site3 is experiencing problems, one just has to change a no to yes.

 

I think the hard part is to have a single site redirect to a unique URL, if a "yes" is present.