Doing redirects using datagroups

Try this:

Data group:

mydomain.ny1.com := /1nyb 
mydomain.ny2.com := /2nyb

iRule:

when HTTP_REQUEST { 
    if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/" } {
        if { [class match [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Prod_Domains_dg] } {
            HTTP::redirect [class match -value [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Prod_Domains_dg]
        }
    }
}

The pool, I assume, is already applied to the virtual server. So the above only redirects if the URI equals "/" and then redirects to the URI from the class match. Requests with more specific URIs are ignored.

check for the target for 1;

e.g.

set target [getfield [HTTP::uri] "/" 2]

then check if target == ""; if true then do the redirect to the new uri.

Can you post your if statement please. I think your issue will be the fact you are attempting to rewrite the hostname and URI.

hello kevin I tried as you provided, but it is stopping at

http://mydomain.ny1.com --> https://mydomain.ny1.com/ but not going https://mydomain.ny1.com/1nyb

  when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/" } {
        if { [class match [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Prod_Domains_dg] } {
            HTTP::redirect [class match -value [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Prod_Domains_dg]
        }
} 
}

Ahh, I didn't get that you wanted to go to HTTPS. Try this variation:

when HTTP_REQUEST { 
    if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/" } {
        if { [class match [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Prod_Domains_dg] } {
            HTTP::redirect "https://[HTTP::host][class match -value [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Prod_Domains_dg]"
        }
    }
}

kevin,

I updated the script and yet it goes no further.

wireshark -

GET / HTTP/1.1

Host: mydomain.ny1.com

Connection: keep-alive

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.66 Safari/537.36

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch

Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8

Cookie: avr_2931034823_0_0_4294901760_1679819018_0=1868296818_38074561



HTTP/1.0 302 Found

Location: https://mydomain.ny1.com/

Server: BigIP

Connection: Keep-Alive

Content-Length: 0

Well, you're getting redirected, so that's something. Let's add some debug logging:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    log local0. "Host equals [HTTP::host]"
    log local0. "Request URI equals [HTTP::uri]"
    if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/" } {
        log local0. "URI equals /"
        if { [class match [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Prod_Domains_dg] } {
            log local0. "Matched a data group entry: [class match -value [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Prod_Domains_dg]" 
            HTTP::redirect "https://[HTTP::host][class match -value [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Prod_Domains_dg]"
        }
    }
}

Observe this in the LTM log from the management shell:

tail -f /var/log/ltm

I suspect, if this still doesn't work, that server side compression is likely causing a problem. Can you disable that for testing?

Thanks Kevin , and what lies beneath - because I am blind .

this is working now

mydomain.ny1.com := /1nyb 
mydomain.ny2.com := /2nyb

when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [class match [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Prod_Domains_dg] } {
     if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/" } {
            HTTP::redirect https://[HTTP::host][class match -value [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Prod_Domains_dg]
        }
}
if { [class match [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Staging_Domains_dg] } {
     if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/" } {
            HTTP::redirect https://[HTTP::host][class match -value [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals Staging_Domains_dg]
        } else {
use pool stagingWEBFORMS 
}
}
}