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Mr__T
Cirrus
CirrusIrule Vs rewrite - FQDN hostname
Hi All, New to IRules, and rewrites. Clients will type appname.domain.com, I need to redirect to another URL (working via IRule) that the server understands but keep the friendly name appname.doma...
Paulius
MVP
MVPMr__T So a few things stand out to me. First is that you don't want a redirect you would like a rewrite but in your rewrite it looks like you want to add on a port at the end of the host which shouldn't be necessary because your pool member should be listening on that port already. The last is whenever they hit just "/" as the URI do you want to redirect them to a specific path? So as an example of how I believe this works.
User requests https://appname.domain.com/
F5 responds with a redirect to https://appname.domain.com/something/something/something/etc/etc/etc.html
User now requests https://appname.domain.com/something/something/something/something/etc/etc/etc.html
F5 rewrites appname.domain.com to longappname.com
F5 sends request to server on https://longappname.com/something/something/something/etc/etc/etc.html
Response comes back from server and F5 rewrites longappname.com to appname.domain.com
F5 sends response back to client for https://appname.domain.com/something/something/something/etc/etc/etc.html
If for some reason I did not understand this correctly can you provide additional information as to how it has to function?
Mr__TCirrus
CirrusHi Paulius,
The long URL is what the app has hardcoded and will only respond to that URL. So my goal was to make sure the client only sees the frienly name after the redirects happen. I tried rewrite policies but the IRule seems to be the way to go. The redirect to he long URL works fine, but they dont want to see the servername rather FQDN.
Does this make sense?