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Kevhed
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Oct 14, 2014

HTTPS redirect to a different external website

I'm relatively new to F5 so not sure if this can be done. What we would like to do on our F5 is accept requests for https://webmail.our-companya.com and have the F5 send back a redirect to the clien...
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Lazar_92526
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Oct 15, 2014

Here is an irule that should work. Just set a standard virtual server with an HTTP profile associated to it which is needed for the response to function:

when HTTP_REQUEST { 

        if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "server.fromsomewhere.com" } {
                    HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://goto.thisserver.com/thispage"
        }

}

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Ashish_Ram_Tak1
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Oct 17, 2014
Thank you for the support but my requirement is user will only see the server.fromsomewhere.com in their browser and not https://goto.thisserver.com/thispage. Could you please help on this.