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DM_5174
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Feb 08, 2011

HTTP REDIRECT AND KEEPING URI AFTER DOMAIN NAME

Hi All,     I was wondering if I can get a little help here. I have an existing irule that will redirect and add the "www" if   users forgets to put this in...so if they type "http://mysite....
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hoolio
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Feb 08, 2011
George's iRule should definitely redirect requests with a hostname of mysite.com to www.mysite.com with the original path appended to the redirect. You might want to change [HTTP::path] to [HTTP::uri] to preserve any query string the client uses. If this isn't working for you, try adding debug logging to the iRule to see what the client is requesting. Note I've left off the else clause as the default will be to use the virtual server's default pool. 


when HTTP_REQUEST {
   log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: [HTTP::method] request to [HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]"
   if { [HTTP::host] equals "mysite.com" } {
      log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: Redirecting to http://www.mysite.com[HTTP::uri]"
      HTTP::redirect "http://www.mysite.com[HTTP::uri]"
   }
}

Aaron