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Ren_Alcala
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Apr 21, 2021
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How to configure my simple website using JAVA and apply F5 Big-IP LTM to each server??

Hi Everyone,   I'm new on the F5 solution and i'm a little bit confuse on how can configure my simple website(created in Java) and apply my F5 Big-IP?? Do i need to configure inside the codes on ...
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  • Daniel_Wolf's avatar
    Daniel_Wolf
    Apr 21, 2021

    The domain name must be configured at your DNS service provider.

    Say your site should be www.my-awesome-site.com, then you need configure you DNS to point to the virtual IP you configured on the BIG-IP. Or in case there is a NAT device in front of the BIG-IP, you have to use the NATed IP.

     

    If you need to redirect to some specific URL or Directory, you can do this with LTM Traffic Policies.

     

    If you want your site to use SSL you have to configure a clientside SSL profile and you have to have a SSL cert + private key.

    On the AskF5 youtube channel there are a couple of videos regarding SSL Certificates.

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Ren_Alcala
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Apr 21, 2021

Hi Daniel,

 

Thanks for the reply :). What i don't understand sir is how did the F5 know what HTML/Web Page to display when you try to access the Virtual Server IP shown in the video??Like showing Serve1 & Server2 Page??

 

Regards,

Renato

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    Daniel_Wolf
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    Apr 21, 2021

    Aha, you are asking, how the BIG-IP will know what is the webpage to display? Whether it is index.html or index.php or start.htm. Right?

    If your website is running on a webserver like nginx oder Apache, you will have a default document configured. When you access the location /, the webserver will know what page to show because you configured it.

    The BIG-IP will not change this behaviour of the webserver.