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Daniel_Reznicek
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Aug 20, 2012

Direct hundreds of clients to 10's of pools by URI

We have hundreds of customers, each with their own website. These websites are on pools of servers with approx 50 sites per pool. The customers are redirected via a website doing a sql query to find t...
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nitass
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Aug 21, 2012
in case of using data group.

e.g. 

[root@ve10:Active] config  b virtual bar list
virtual bar {
   destination 172.28.19.79:80
   ip protocol 6
   rules myrule
   profiles {
      http {}
      tcp {}
   }
}
[root@ve10:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
   if {[string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "www.website.com"} {
      scan [HTTP::uri] {/%s} cust
      set pl [class match -value $cust equals redirect_class]
      if {$pl ne ""} {
         HTTP::redirect "http://[string map "www $pl" [string tolower [HTTP::host]]][HTTP::uri]"
      }
   }
}
}
[root@ve10:Active] config  b class redirect_class list
class redirect_class {
   {
      "customer1" { "pool1" }
      "customer2" { "pool13" }
      "customer3" { "pool4" }
   }
}

[root@ve10:Active] config  curl -I http://172.28.19.79/customer1 -H "Host: www.website.com"
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://pool1.website.com/customer1
Server: BigIP
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 0

[root@ve10:Active] config  curl -I http://172.28.19.79/customer2 -H "Host: www.website.com"
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://pool13.website.com/customer2
Server: BigIP
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 0

[root@ve10:Active] config  curl -I http://172.28.19.79/customer3 -H "Host: www.website.com"
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://pool4.website.com/customer3
Server: BigIP
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 0