iRule for HTTP redirect from retired URL to new URL

Hi Heidi,

All that you should need is the basic default "http" HTTP Profile in order to apply an iRule to a Virtual Server.

The only thing that HTTPS is adding to your issue is that you can only apply one SSL Profile (which contains the SSL Certificate that the client will receive when they connect to the Virtual Server) per Virtual Server, so these two HTTPS Sites will have to be put on separate Virtual Servers to prevent SSL Certificate Mismatch Errors.

I made the assumption that these sites are not identical. Basically that https://www.oldsite.com/foo/bar/itemlist.html would NOT equal https://www.newsite.com/foo/bar/itemlist.html.

If they are, use the 2nd Example:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "www.oldsite.com" } {
HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.newsite.com"
}
}

or
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "www.oldsite.com" } {
HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.newsite.com[HTTP::uri]"
}
}

Hope this helps.

Heidi

 

 

I take it your offloading the ssl transaction with a clientssl profile so the ltm can inspect the http traffic?

 

 

Here's an example of an irule I use for such things:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [HTTP::host] equals "www.oldsite.com"} {

 

HTTP::redirect "www.newsite.com"

 

}

 

 

I'm also new to iruling but hoping to improve.

 

 

Hope it helps

 

N

HTTP::redirect returns 302. if it is permanent, using 301 may be better.

What's the difference between 301 redirects and 302 redirects

http://webdesign.about.com/od/http/qt/tip301v302redir.htm

[root@ve1023:Active] config  b virtual bar list
virtual bar {
   snat automap
   destination 172.28.65.152:https
   ip protocol tcp
   rules myrule
   profiles {
      clientssl {
         clientside
      }
      http {}
      tcp {}
   }
}
[root@ve1023:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
        if {[string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "www.oldsite.com"} {
                HTTP::redirect "https://www.newsite.com[HTTP::uri]"
        }
}
}
[root@ve1023:Active] config  curl -Ik https://www.oldsite.com
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: https://www.newsite.com/
Server: BigIP
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 0

[root@ve1023:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
        if {[string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "www.oldsite.com"} {
                HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.newsite.com[HTTP::uri]"
        }
}
}
[root@ve1023:Active] config  curl -Ik https://www.oldsite.com
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://www.newsite.com/
Server: BigIP
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 0

Thank you all for your help! I'm going to give these a try today, I'll let you know what works or what option I go with.

We are not doing SSL termination for this site. Could that be part of the issue? I realize we will get a cert error when using the old address, but the redirect should still work right?

 

 

I tried 2 variations of the above iRules with the same results. Both times, my vserver for www.newsite.com quit responding. It would not load the site either by using www.newsite.com or by using www.oldsite.com. When I would put the address in the browser, it would spin and spin, never loading a page. As soon as I removed the profile and iRule, the www.newsite.com began working again.

 

 

I modified the 443 vserver for www.newsite.com, selected the default http profile for that vserver, and then applied my iRule to the vserver. Here are the 2 iRules I tried....

 

 

iRule 1:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "www.oldsite.com" } {

 

HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.newsite.com"

 

}

 

}

 

 

 

iRule 2:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "www.oldsite.com" } {

 

HTTP::redirect "https://www.newsite.com"

 

}

 

}

 

We are not doing SSL termination for this site. Could that be part of the issue?ssl termination (clientssl profile) and http profile are needed since you need to parse http header and take an action accordingly.

OK, that makes sense. Thank you!

 

need help with 301 redirect for this

 

 

Old URL: http://www.old.com/survey-solutions

 

New URL: http://new.com

 

 

thank you

Try this:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
     if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "www.old.com" } {
          HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://new.com[HTTP::uri]"
     }
}

survey-solutions left out ?