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smeisenzahl
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Dec 13, 2012

Irule simple redirect or not?

I have an issue where I think I need a redirect but I'm not sure   I have a site http://www.testsite.com that is in production and I can't modify the vs at this time. When users type www.testsite...
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melcaniac
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Dec 13, 2012
This is what we do, we have a virtual server that just redirects to the www address. The 301 response means that SEO vendors will know that this is a permanent move and that they should go to the www server. We have our DNS entries without the www pointed to the IP of the virtual server with this iRule:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

HTTP::respond 301 Location [http://www.[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]]

 

}