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Altostratus

Apr 11, 2019

iRule to Redirect to Another VS on the same LTM

Hi guys - I'm trying to get the following scenario working: My domain "; maps to a public IP "1.1.1.1" and I have a virtual server configured on my F5 with "1.1.1.1:443" I have two unrelated ap...

Cirrocumulus

Apr 11, 2019

Hello Adam,

Have you instead looked into HTTP::redirect?

This would change your flow so that the client sends a separate HTTP request to vs1 and vs2, making a separate connection to your other virtual servers. It might simplify your configuration a little more. That way you could do source_addr persistence, etc.

Best of luck,

Austin

adam88
Cirrus
Apr 12, 2019
Unfortunately HTTP:redirect is not an option because in order to switch traffic to the other virtual server, I will either have to:

Redirect the user to a different sub-domain that resolves to the IP address of the other virtual server (eg. https://vs2.example.com)

Redirect the user to the same sub-domain but add a custom port at the back of the hostname (https://www.example.com:5000/abc)

Both these options are unacceptable as the requirement is that the whole thing is transparent to the users and that the user's browser address bar only shows either https://www.example.com/abc or https://www.example.com/def.