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GwIDsON's avatar
GwIDsON
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Dec 21, 2020

F5 LTM - iRule that will replace the host, remove the path and send traffic to the specific pool

Hi,   I have a standard VIP on port 443 with SSL client and servers side profile and some pool on port 443 as well.   What I need to implement on that VIP is: when the path begins with /VPC (...
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Mayur_Sutare's avatar
Mayur_Sutare
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Hi,

You can have below iRules on your VS to achieve your requirement.

iRule 1 -

when HTTP_REQUEST {
               if { ([HTTP::host] equals "example.com") && ([HTTP::uri] starts_with "/vpc") } {
                              HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://example2.net"
               }
}

iRule 2 - For Pool selection

when HTTP_REQUEST 
{
    switch [HTTP::host] {
 
	"example2.net" {pool example2_pool}
	
                         }
                   }

You can bind these iRules to your virtual server so it will match for desired requests, rest requests will be forwarded to the default pool.

Hope it helps!

Mayur

GwIDsON's avatar
GwIDsON
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Dec 21, 2020

Hi. I did not add that 301 also cannot be used. My bad, sorry for that The thing is that we cannot add DNS entry with example2.net. So the user can only connect using example.com and all the redirect to example2.net/ needs to be done on the F5. I hope it's possible. However I'm not sure if there will be an issue after the user will get the response from example2.net. It's complicated :D