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OttimoMassimo_1
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusHTTP re-write
Hi,
Apologies in advance for the newbie question!
I'd like to apply a HTTP re-write so when a user browses to blog.site.com they are redirected to www.site.com/blog/, but blog.site.com remains in the user's address bar.
I can currently redirect from blog.site to www.site.com/blog/ with the configuration below. Unfortunately www.site.com/blog appears in the address bar of the browser after the redirect. Is it possible to "re-write" to a new URL in the manner I've outlined?
when HTTP_REQUEST
....
switch [HTTP::host] {
"blog.site.com" {
HTTP:redirect "http://www.site.com/blog/"
}
- The_BhattmanHi OttimoMassimo,
There are 2 ways to ago about this.
Do you want the user who enters blog.site.com to be redirect to www.site.com/blog but still retain the blog.site.com on the user's URL on the browser?
If so then your code would look something like this.HTTP_REQUEST { switch -glob [HTTP::host] { "blog.site.com" { HTTP::header replace Host "www.site.com" HTTP::uri /blog [HTTP::uri] } } }
or
Do you want to a user who enters blog.site.com to be redirected to www.site.com/blog, but have www.site.com/blog on the user's URL on the browser?
If so then the code would look something like the following:HTTP_REQUEST { switch -glob [HTTP::host] { "blog.site.com" { HTTP::redirect http://www.site.com/blog/ } } }
I hope this helps
Bhattman 
OttimoMassimo_1thanks Bhattman. I'll give that a try and let you know how I get on
hooleylistCirrostratus
You could also use the ProxyPass iRule for this:
http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/proxypassv10
Aaron- OttimoMassimo_1so yeah, got this working in the end with the following:
when HTTP_REQUEST {
...
switch [HTTP::host] {
"blog.site.com" {
if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/" } {
HTTP::uri "/blog/"
}
pool
return
It was grafted into an existing i-rule which had a couple of re-writes before defaulting to the default pool
