changing the url...do not want a redirect

You are asking about changing the host value, not the URI. The format of a URL is the following

http://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]

http://www.foo.com/foo/bar

HTTP::host -> www.foo.com

HTTP::uri -> /foo/bar

So, for your specific question, you'll need to tweak the Host header. For a host modification, you can do the following:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP::host] eq "123.abc.com" } {
    HTTP::header replace "Host" 123ext.abc.com"
  }
}

This will modify the Host header of the HTTP request to the backend server to be "123ext.abc.com" so it will effectively look to the backend server like the request was http://123ext.abc.com/....

Hope this helps...

-Joe

Joe,

 

 

I appreciate you reply.

 

 

How would I combine two rules? I've got this one, that states which pool to go to if coming from the public side:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [matchclass [IP::remote_addr] equals $::group_public_websites] } {

 

pool pool_public_websites

 

} else {

 

HTTP::redirect "http://www.abc.com/temp/outage.jsp/"

 

}

 

}

 

 

And yours:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [HTTP::host] eq "123.abc.com" } {

 

HTTP::header replace "Host" 123ext.abc.com"

 

}

 

}

 

 

I'd like to know how you'd go about saying IF the request is coming from the public side AND if the host is 123.abc.com, go to this pool, else here...

 

 

Thanks again.

Try this. I added a missing leading quote to your host header replacement value.

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { ([matchclass [IP::remote_addr] equals $::group_public_websites]) and ([HTTP::host] eq "123.abc.com") } {
    HTTP::header replace "Host" "123ext.abc.com"
    pool pool_public_websites
  } else {
    HTTP::redirect "http://www.abc.com/temp/outage.jsp/"
  }
}