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Dave_Wood_20330
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Sep 30, 2013

Customise LTM / GTM error messages to display as red text on white bakground

Hi All,

 

I have a query which originated from a customer. Although I'm a very rrecent participant to F5, I have searched through what I think is all useful information relating to error message customisation. Although this seems effortless with APM and perhaps other platforms; the abilty to do so within LTM and GTM has eluded me. - Does anyone know of some settings I might have overlooked? - If not, is it possible I could easily achieve this with an iRule? I'm happy to struggle a little, so if nothing else - a pointer in the right direction for this newbie would be hugely appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance, Dave

 

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  • James_Forman_43's avatar
    James_Forman_43
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    Sep 30, 2013

    Hi Dave

    For some of our customers who only want basic error messages we use the below in an iRule:

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
HTTP::respond 503 content "This website is currently unavailable. Please contact our helpdesk on (123) 1234 5678"
}

    This however isn't very attractive and is just a line of text inside most web browsers. I would suggest instead redirecting to an external service or a different internal server that only serves static contact with a nicer error page.

    I hope this helps. James