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fwadmin
Altostratus
AltostratusiRule HTML Maintenance Page insert URI Value
Looking for help writing an iRule that will display, in HTML code, that the page being access has been changed. I'm trying to figure out how to referece the requested URI in HTML since this will vary. Below is what I have for now. Any help is appriciated.
when HTTP_REQUEST {
HTTP::respond 200 content {
<html>
<head>
<title> This Page Has Moved </title>
</head>
<body>
<b> This Page Has Moved </b>
Links and bookmarks to example.com should be updated to example.new.com
The page you requested has moved to https://example.com/<HTTP::uri>
</body>
</html>
}
}
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Some guidance here. You can use iFiles on F5 to upload your HTML and then serve via an iRule. Easier to maintain!
https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/iFile.html
Finally, you can use HTTP meta tags to try and have the browser auto redirect after a certain time period. Check out the previous post on this:
Using both resources, you should be able to set this up in no time 🙂
- whisperer
MVP
Some guidance here. You can use iFiles on F5 to upload your HTML and then serve via an iRule. Easier to maintain!
https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/iFile.html
Finally, you can use HTTP meta tags to try and have the browser auto redirect after a certain time period. Check out the previous post on this:
Using both resources, you should be able to set this up in no time 🙂
- whisperer
Oh yeah, for namespace reference, you can store into a variable and then use in a string:
https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-articles/intermediate-irules-handling-strings/ta-p/290304
Otherwise, you can access directly in a string using the brackets...
something here like log.local0 or whatever... "your uri is [HTTP::uri]"
- Paulius
fwadmin Do you plan on owning the old domain still once it has migrated? If you will keep the old domain I would bother with this page and would just perform a 301 redirect and leave it be. You might be able to add in an additional action to add in a referer HTTP header and allow the destination server to add in a pop-up saying the site changed and when the old name will no longer be used.
fwadminThanks for the reply. Yes, totally agree, so a redirect is what was first thought, but we want users to update their bookmarks and give them some time to do that; we wont be keeping the old domain. So is it even possible to display the URI and or URL in the html code or would it be easier to just add a popup after redirected if they went to the old URL?
- LiefZimmerman
Admin
- fwadmin
Thanks for the help! We ended up using the iFile option for the HTML portion of the page then defining a variable in the iRule for the URL and URI and refreceng those variable with $var_name.
