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awesome75_35262
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Feb 21, 2018

Context based load balancing

Hello, I am new to F5 and trying to understand how I can setup URL in F5 to send traffic to backend hosts running Apache.

 

Xyz.com (f5) -> abc.com/app1

 

abc.com is shared webserver that’s hosts many other apps

 

Any help will be much appreciated

 

Thanks

 

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  • Daniel_Varela's avatar
    Daniel_Varela
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    Feb 22, 2018

    I am not sure if I understood you well but here it is my guess. From the F5 point view should be very simple, you have an IP which is your virtual server and your entry point for your applications. If xyz.com point to your VS then this will be forwarded to the pool in your VS maintaining all the http headers untouched (by default). If you happen to have abc.com pointing to the same virtual server it will happen the same so if your backend servers support contexts it will work just fine.

     

    Different is if you need to rewrite headers, etc... for that you will need irules or LTM policies. LTM policies are around 20% more efficient than irules and cover a lot of simple tasks, I recommend you to have a look as they are very simple. For advanced stuff you have the irules.