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asabado
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Nov 03, 2021

Geolocation redirection for external published DNS

I received a request to set up a redirection in the bigip depending on where the traffic is coming from. Basically when a customer accesses finder.abc.com(sample) from Spain, it gets redirected to ht...
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spalande's avatar
spalande
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Nov 03, 2021

I see you were using SE for Sweden. So iRule would be following 

when HTTP_REQUEST {
	switch -glob [whereis [IP::client_addr]country] {
             "ES" 
		{
                        HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.abc.com/es-es/home/servicepoints.html"
		} 
		"SE"
		{
		       HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.abc.com/se-se/home/servicepoints.html"
		}
		default {
		        HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.abc.com/home"
		}
	}
}
  • asabado's avatar
    asabado
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    Nov 04, 2021
    Thanks SanjayP, I did try out the irules but it didn’t seem to work.. ☹
    • spalande's avatar
      spalande
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      Nov 04, 2021

      F5 has inbuilt gelocation database so this should work. I see there was 1 typo in iRule

      (space between [IP::client_addr] country).

      Please correct below and also enable some logging and provide the log output if still not working.

      when HTTP_REQUEST { 
	switch -glob [whereis [IP::client_addr] country] {
             "ES" 
		{     
                        log local0. "ES IP match: [IP::client_addr]"
                        HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.abc.com/es-es/home/servicepoints.html"
		} 
		"SE"
		{      
                       log local0. "SE IP match: [IP::client_addr]"
		       HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.abc.com/se-se/home/servicepoints.html"
		}
		default {
                        log local0. "no match: [IP::client_addr]"
		        HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.abc.com/home"
		}
	}
}