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bhamman
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusJDE Redirects
I'm new to the iRule game, and these things are probably pretty simple to do, but they're beyond me at this time. I'd like to have users just type "jde" into their browsers and have three things happ...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
EmployeeIf I may add:
1. Assuming you have DNS entries for both "jde" and "jde.example.com", you could definitely use an iRule to redirect the user to the FQDN:
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when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "jde" } {
HTTP::redirect "http://jde.example.com[HTTP::uri]"
}
}
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2. 100% agree. Just make sure port translation is enabled in the virtual server configuration.
3. There is practically no condition where the URI will be blank. In the absence of a URI, any modern browser will simply send "/". You can then simplify the iRule logic to look for this minimal URI.
