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Alex_Bloor_3061's avatar
Alex_Bloor_3061
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Jan 24, 2017

How do I perform a URL redirect on my traffic using F5 server?

I am setting up my very first F5 reverse proxy server and my first goal is to successfully redirect traffic from abc.mydomain.com to https://abc.mydomain.com.

 

I followed along with this YouTube tutorial, but the GUI was a bit different (an older version?).

 

In C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts, I put in [my.server.ip.here abc.mydomain.com].

 

I suspect my rule isn't configured correctly. There may be other configuration issues as well.

 

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    • Alex_Bloor_3061's avatar
      Alex_Bloor_3061
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      Jan 25, 2017

      Unfortunately, that didn't work. My destination address on the virtual server is using service port 443 (https), so I tried that port as well, but haven't had any success.

       

  • Charles_Lamb's avatar
    Charles_Lamb
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    Jan 25, 2017

    Good afternoon,

     

    You need to configure two virtual servers.

     

    1 for http port 80 and 1 for https port 443

     

    The virtual server on port 80 will need an iRule that will do a redirect to 443 using a 301/302. Something along these lines:

     

    when HTTP_REQUEST {

     

    HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://[getfield [HTTP::host] : 1][HTTP::uri]"

     

    }