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SoLucky
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Jul 26, 2016

How to keep the internal URL in browser address bar and point to external website

Is there a way to keep internal web address all the time and point it to public URL?   Let's say I have internal web address called honest2.company.com which has 10.10.2.35 and have public website...
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Hannes_Rapp_162
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That's a fairly basic problem and I recommend you look into LTM Local Traffic policy feature for the most performance-efficient solution. However, you can also use an iRule provided below. Of course, you will also need two DNS entries - one of which is used by the general public, the other for your private LAN users/employees.

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { ([HTTP::host] eq "abc123pqr456xyz789.azurewebsites.net") && (not ([class match [IP::client_addr] eq "private_net" ])) }{
    HTTP::header replace Host "honest2.company.com"
  }
}
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SoLucky
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Jul 26, 2016

Thanks Hannes for your quick reply but it gives "This page can't be displayed."

 

when HTTP_REQUEST { if { ([HTTP::host] eq "abc123pqr456xyz789.azurewebsites.net") && (not ([class match [IP::client_addr] eq "private_net" ])) }{ HTTP::header replace Host "honest2.company.com" } }

 

Do you see anything wrong? From my laptop I am able to hit honest2.company.com (10.10.2.35) but looks like the iRule is not able to do the magic. I am able to successfully do nslookup and get correct IPs. Any clue/help?