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SSell's avatar
SSell
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Sep 18, 2015

iRule to redirect to new url, but retain path after first location

I have been tasked with creating an irule to redirect a url to a new server. However the existing server will still have other urls still working on it. We need to retain everything in the URL afte...
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Brad_Parker
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Sep 23, 2015

For a permanent redirect you would use this to do a 301:

when HTTP_REQUEST { 
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "www.abc.com" and [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/app/" } { 
        HTTP::respond 301 noserver Location "https://app.def.com/[string map {/app/ /} [string tolower [HTTP::uri]]]"
    }
}
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Brad_Parker
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Sep 23, 2015
You probably want to add string tolower to prevent case mis-match compares. I update above.