Irule Suggestion

Can't say I completely understand the request. Let's say a user requests this:

http://outlet.XYZ.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_us/XYZPortal/en_US/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/US/Portals/Outlet

Do you need this request to go to a specific pool member, or do you need to redirect to something (and if so, to what)?

How is the customer's country of origin identified please?

To explain it more:--

1.User will hit main URL: outlet.lenovo.com and it will point to US customer's page and Language page is US English below:

http://outlet.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_us/LenovoPortal/en_US/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/US/Portals/Outlet

1. When user will hit MAIN url: outlet.ie.lenovo.com and it will point to IE customer's page and Language page is IE English below:

http://outlet.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_ie/LenovoPortal/en_IE/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/EMEA/Portals/Outlet

1. When user will hit MAIN url: outlet.gb.lenovo.com and it will point to UK/GB customer's page and Language page is GB English below:

http://outlet.XYZ.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_gb/XYZPortal/en_GB/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/EMEA/Portals/Outlet

1. When user will hit main URL: outlet.de.lenovo.com and it will point to UK/GB customer's page and Language page is DE below:

http://outlet.XYZ.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_de/XYZPortal/de_DE/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/EMEA/Portals/Outlet

1. When user will hit main URL: outlet.fr.lenovo.com and it will point to FR customer's page and Language page is FR below:

http://outlet.XYZ.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_fr/XYZPortal/fr_FR/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/EMEA/Portals/Outlet

But they all have a common Virtual-Server: lets say : 10.1.1.1 which is attached to a Test-Pool having 4 members where the pages are hosted.

Upon hitting the respective URL's by the customer, the expanded URL common part is: http://outlet.XYZ.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/ , so can we write some irule making use of the Class-maps data-group to point it to the pool.

yes, US and IE URL is in production, others are not, those will come in production shortly.

you can try something like this, also instead of redirect to node you can use redirect to pool:

when HTTP_REQUEST {    
    if { [HTTP::uri] contains "outlet_us" } {   
        node 192.168.1.1 80    
       }  elseif { [HTTP::uri] contains "outlet_de" } { 
        node 192.168.1.2 80     

  } 
  }  

No, our requirement seems a bit different:

Currently : outlet.lenovo.com , outlet.ie.lenovo.com ,outlet.de.lenovo.com, outlet.fr.lenovo.com, outlet.gb.lenovo.com is updated into DNS as VIP'S IP.

Instead of that now planning to have one VIP and we wanted to attach a Irule which will yes ofcourse mapped to the single pool: Test-Pool comprising of all 4 members.

But if you check the URL, once clicking on the main URL(outlet.lenovo.com , outlet.ie.lenovo.com ,outlet.de.lenovo.com, outlet.fr.lenovo.com, outlet.gb.lenovo.com) , the expanded URL will have common part as http://outlet.XYZ.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/ , so can we write some irule making use of the Class-maps data-group.

Thanks and Regards Parveez

Here's my untested attempt, using two datagroups, one that maps en:en_gb etc. and another that maps en:EMEA;

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 Remove any port specification from the hostname and store the result in variable 'hostname'
 set hostname [getfield [HTTP::host] ":" 1]

 Extract the third element of the hostname (reading from the right) and store result in variable 'subhostname'
 set subhostname [getfield $hostname "." 3]

 Stop processing this rule if the variable 'subhostname' is empty
 if { $subhostname equals "" } { return }

 Check if the variable 'subhostname' matches our data group list, if not, stop processing this rule
 if { not [class match $subhostname equals "dg_name"] } { return }

 Now we're sure we have a valid value for 'subhostname' let's move on

 Extract the country URI element as necessary based on the 'subhostname' variable value
 set salescountry [class match -value -- $subhostname equals "dg_name"]

 Extract the region URI element as necessary based on the 'subhostname' variable value
 set salesregion [class match -value -- $subhostname equals "dg222_name"]

 Now finally do the redirect
 HTTP::redirect "[HTTP::host]/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_$subhostname/XYZPortal/$salescountry/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/$salesregion/Portals/Outlet"
}

Hi,

Based on this suggestion: we got two data-groups::: dg_name and dg222_name. 1. So, in dg_name which part we will put. 2. and dg222_name which part we will put.

Taking an example of the below Five URLs:

outlet.lenovo.com , outlet.ie.lenovo.com ,outlet.de.lenovo.com, outlet.fr.lenovo.com, outlet.gb.lenovo.com

1. set subhostname [getfield $hostname "." 3] ============= what this 3 here ?

Kindly guide.

Thanks and Regards Parveez

Hi,

Based on this suggestion: we got two data-groups::: dg_name and dg222_name.

Query:

1. So, in dg_name which part we will put.

    

2. and dg222_name which part we will put.

    

3. set subhostname [getfield $hostname "." 3] ============= what this 3 here ?

    

Taking an example of the same Five main URLs:( which is a mixture of different zones)

outlet.lenovo.com( US) , outlet.ie.lenovo.com( EMEA ) ,outlet.de.lenovo.com( EMEA ), outlet.fr.lenovo.com( EMEA ), outlet.gb.lenovo.com( EMEA )

So, can we map all these together where you specifid Data-group: dg222_name for eg: en:EMEA

Kindly guide.

Thanks and Regards Parveez

OK, so the data group named dg_name will contain the hostname to language mappings;

gb:en_GB
de:de_DE
fr:fr_FR

and so on. The dg222_name data group will contain the hostname to sales region mappings;

en:EMEA
de:EMEA
fr:EMEA

The 3 used with the getfield command specifies the value of the third field (as delimited by '.') from the right, so for outlet.ie.XYZ.com the value will be 'ie'.

I've just noticed that for US users only a three part hostname is used so we'll need to account for that too. If the only two regions are US and EMEA we can probable simplify the rule somewhat. Updated rule below;

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 Remove any port specification from the hostname and store the result in variable 'hostname'
 set hostname [getfield [HTTP::host] ":" 1]

 Extract the third element of the hostname (reading from the right) and store result in variable 'subhostname'
 set subhostname [getfield $hostname "." 3]

 Stop processing this rule if the variable 'subhostname' is empty
 if { $subhostname equals "" } { return }

 Check if the variable 'subhostname' matches our data group list, if not, redirect to the US site
 and stop processing this rule
 if { not [class match $subhostname equals "dg_name"] } { 
  HTTP::redirect "http://outlet.XYZ.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_us/XYZPortal/en_US/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/US/Portals/Outlet"
  return }

 Now we're sure we have a valid value for 'subhostname' let's move on

 Extract the country URI element as necessary based on the 'subhostname' variable value
 set salescountry [class match -value -- $subhostname equals "dg_name"]

 Extract the region URI element as necessary based on the 'subhostname' variable value
 set salesregion [class match -value -- $subhostname equals "dg222_name"]

 Now finally do the redirect
 HTTP::redirect "[HTTP::host]/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_$subhostname/XYZPortal/$salescountry/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/$salesregion/Portals/Outlet"
}