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MihirP1129's avatar
MihirP1129
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Jul 03, 2019

iRule to add www without changing URL

Hello F5 community,   Is there a way to add www in front of the URL while keeping the URL intact? For example:   https://abc.com/testfolder/blahblahblah changed to https://WWW.abc.com/testfolder/...
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  • Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
    Stanislas_Piro2
    Jul 05, 2019

    Do you want to change Host header sent from the client in server side connection or do you want to redirect the client to  https://WWW.abc.com/testfolder/blahblahblah

     

    to redirect the client, use following code

     

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if {[HTTP::host] eq "abc.com"} {
        HTTP::redirect "https://www.abc.com[HTTP::uri]"
    }
}

     

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MihirP1129
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Jul 08, 2019

To complicate things even more, I found out that the web developer has a redirect hardcoded in the code for http://abc.com or http://www.abc.com to go to https://www.abc.com/web/default.aspx. I added the redirect iRule (Stanislas Piron) mentioned above to the 443 VS on the F5, and when I test a site https://abc.com/web/default.aspx?frm=test-option3, I get a "Hmm.. can't reach this page" in firefox. It shows Protocol (Pending) and Result (Pending) when do a Network debugging in FF when hitting that site. The redirect in the code has to stay for the site to work properly. I'm not sure how to make this work. Maybe conflicts in multiple redirects? looping?