iRules for reverse proxy

HTTP::redirect is a full 302 redirect, so you have to provide it the entire URL.

 

 

Try this:

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { not ([HTTP::uri] equals "/french/") } {
HTTP::redirect "http://[getfield [HTTP::host] ":" 1]/french/"
}
}

 

 

The second example you gave doesn't actually change anything. It reads and compares the [HTTP::uri] and if it equals "/french" then your telling it to change the [HTTP::uri] to "/french/".

 

 

If you told hit to change it to "/english/" then it would change the request sent to the server, but not change what was displayed in the browser.

 

 

The browser would show:

 

http://www.website.com/french/

 

 

The server would see:

 

http://www.website.com/english/

 

 

You would use this if you wanted to simplify the vanity URL, but actually had your website code arranged differently.