HTTP and URI Redirect

CORRECTION...

 

 

1) When a client hits "http:///" they should be redirected to https://10.10.10.1/Proxy

 

 

2) If clients hits https:/// they should be redirected to https://10.10.10.1/Proxy"

 

 

Both requests should direct the traffic to pool "VLProxy"

 

 

 

Thanks.

I'm a bit confused. http:/// won't get anyone to your server, let alone to the appropriate VIP. What hostname did you want to search for?

 

 

Colin

Right now I have not been provided a hostname. Only the IP. But they will use something like "medstest.com".

 

 

Thanks.

Okay, so you just want a redirect that works for either HTTP or HTTPS?

So you create a virtual for each (or one that listens on both) with an irule like:

 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  if {([HTTP::host] eq "medtest.com") and ([HTTP::uri] eq "/")} { 
    HTTP::redirect "https://10.10.10.1/Proxy" 
  } 
 } 

You can ignore whether they're coming in on http or https if you want to redirect both to the same place anyway. Then you'd just set up a vip for 10.10.10.1 that points to the VLProxy pool.

Alternatively you could get tricky and just do host name re-writing and pool routing in one iRule, but the redirect route is simpler and would actually change the host for the user, which might be preferable.

Colin

Thanks.. I will test this out.

 

 

 

Appreciate it..

 

 

I'll let you posted...

 

 

Sure thing, let me know how it goes.

 

 

Colin

Script would not take on the load balancer..

 

 

After reviewing it, I realized the script should redirect to https and use the pool.

 

 

What changes should be made since your last post to accomplish this?

 

 

 

 

 

 

The iRule below hangs when executed http://hostname.com and then times out.

 

 

My goal is for the request to hit the VIP and redirect to https, and connect to the pool of servers

 

 

What am I doing wrong????

 

 

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [HTTP::host] equals "uat.ac.com" and [HTTP::uri] equals "/"} {

 

HTTP::redirect "https://uat.ac.com/Portal"

 

}

 

}

 

 

 

Appreciate the help!

 

 

OK...a reboot fixed the fact that I could not see any VIP traffic at all.. go figure...

 

 

So I have the iRule below working, but it does not redirect clients to https://hostname/VLPortal as expected. Any advice on how to correct this?

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [HTTP::uri] contains "/VLPortal" } {

 

use pool VLProxy_Servers_443

 

} elseif { [HTTP::uri] equals "/" } {

 

use pool VLProxy_Servers_443

 

}

 

}

 

 

 

Flip side... when I attempted to use a redirect statement, I get the following error:

 

 

"HTTP:host requires an associated HTTP profile on the virtual server".. so I recreated the VIP and assigned a http (performance profile) but the clients fail to receive data. It just hangs, and later times out.

 

 

Am I missing something here???

 

 

 

NEED HELP BAD...

 

 

 

Thanks.

Okay, so if you want to use the HTTP::redirect command, you need an HTTP profile assigned to the VIP. Try using the base HTTP profile and see how that treats you.

Other than that, this rule looks completely correct:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP::host] equals "uat.ac.com" and [HTTP::uri] equals "/"} {
    HTTP::redirect "https://uat.ac.com/Portal"
  }
} 

If you're getting hung connections when running this iRule, and no errors are showing up in the LTM logs, I'd recommend running something like HTTPWatch or the like to see what's actually happening with the connection. Is it in a redirect loop? Is the back end rejecting the connection? What errors are showing up and from where?

Colin