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eLeCtRoN
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Sep 17, 2025

F5 iRule Reverse Proxy, rewrite, redirect

Hello everyone, We currently have a scenario where a URL is no longer available and needs to be (redirected). The starting point is when https://company.com/tool ​​is accessed, it should (redirect) ...
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eLeCtRoN's avatar
eLeCtRoN
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Sep 17, 2025

Hello,

how about the browser masking ? The other page is just accessible with https://IP-Address/toolno FQDN, no company.com host anymore, so in your case I should use a pool with a member inside which is the server that hosting the new page https://IP-Address/tool, How about certificate issues ? For me doesn't matter it is a redirect or not, I need a possible working solution, thats all ;), I search the best way to do that. 

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Injeyan_Kostas
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Sep 17, 2025

The issue comes when you say

Of course, https://company.com/tool ​​should remain in the browser.

If you don't need this the a simple redirect is fine

when HTTP_REQUEST {
	switch [string tolower [HTTP::host]] {
		"company.com"
		{
			switch -glob [string tolower [HTTP::path]] 
			{
				"/tool/*" 
				{ 
					HTTP::redirect "https://x.x.x.x[HTTP::path]"
				}
				default 
				{}
			}
		}
		default 
		{}
	}
}

but with redirect of course the browser url will change and there will be a certificate warning due to ip used instead of a url with valid cert

 

If you reverse poxy the request there will be no cert issue as you will stil server company.com domain which I assume you have certificate for