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khoutman_235081
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Dec 07, 2015

Issues with pool redirect

We're trying to move a website from on prem to a cloud provider 1 page at a time and decided that trying to do everything on the F5 would be the best way to do it. So I setup a test environment with a pool redirect through irules for the first page we want to move (page /abc)-

when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [string tolower [HTTP::path]] starts_with "/abc" }{
pool pool_cloud}}

The pool redirect works great, the problem we're running in to now is when a user goes to http://mywebsite.com/abc and then back to http://mywebsite.com it keeps trying to load the main page in the cloud which isn't ready yet and not the original on-prem page even though DNS points at the on-prem page.

I don't know if there's some sort of caching that's causing this or a setting on F5 that could help.

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    khoutman_235081
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    Dec 07, 2015

    FYI we updated the irule to below and in testing it looks good so far. We're still doing some more tests but hopefully this solved our issue-

    when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
   set default_pool [LB::server pool]
}
when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::path]] starts_with "/abc" }{
    pool pool_cloud
  }
    else {
    pool $default_pool
  }
}