GEO Based redirect

Hi Srinivasan,

 

 

You can use the whereis and HTTP::redirect or HTTP::uri commands to do this:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.whereis.ashx

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.http__redirect.ashx

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.http__uri.ashx

 

 

Do you want to rewrite the URI to hide the change from the client or redirect the request so the client sees the change? Do you want to change the hostname and/or URI?

 

 

Aaron

Hi Aaron,

 

 

Thanks for your post. I would probably want to hide the info from the client. Basically what i would like to do is match a country in an iRule and redirect it to a different webpage instead of redirecting it to a pool. I would also probably like to rewrite the URI if that is an option.

 

 

Srini

 

 

Hi Aaron,

 

 

Also would like to know if GTM functionality is required to support the Whereis feature.

 

 

Srini

whereis is supported in 10.1 or higher for LTM. Here's an example of rewriting the URI based on the country code:

 

 

when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {

 Save the country code once per connection
set cc [whereis [IP::client_addr] country]
}
when HTTP_REQUEST {
 Check if the cc is not empty
if {$cc ne ""}{
 Insert the country code in the requested URI
HTTP::uri "/${cc}[HTTP::uri]"
}
}

 

 

Aaron

I would use a switch statement for the HTTP_REQUEST. That way you will not have to create a country web page for each country out there. With the switch statement you will add all the country's you have webpages for then send the rest to the default page what ever it is.

Thanks Richard. I would like to have a sample iRule that accomplishes this as i am no iRule expert. Can you help here?

Hi Aaron,

 

 

For using "whereis" do we need to install the geographic IP database into the system?