https://www.a.com/ to https://www.b.com redirect

Chris,

if all that you want to achieve is what you've described in your last post (which is a much simpler problem than what you've described in your first post), then the solution is as follows:

- put copy of your private key and certificate for www.a.com on the

BIG-IP,

- configure SSL proxy for IP address to which www.a.com resolves,

- configure the proxy to refer to a virtual server,

- configure the virtual server to use a rule with single "redirect to"

statement.

The configuration may look like this:

rule www.a.com-redirect {
   redirect to "https://www.b.com"
}
virtual 127.1.1.1:80 {
   use rule www.a.com-redirect
}
proxy www.a.com:https {
   target virtual 127.1.1.1:80
   clientssl enable
   clientssl key www.a.com.key
   clientssl cert www.a.com.crt
}

Notes:

- it is actually better to put IP address as virtual and proxy names

than DNS names, because if DNS resolutions are not available at the

time the machine boots and there is no entry for www.a.com in

/etc/hosts the configuration load will fail,

- you can use unofficial self-signed certificate for the proxy, if you

don't mind that customers will get browser warnings about untrusted

and unverifiable certificate when accessing https://www.a.com.