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abi1980_184094
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Apr 04, 2015

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Am trying to have a Irule for a manintainence page for my f5 to send requests to a pool which hosts it   MY current Irule only manages to redirect anything http://xxx.com , however anything which...
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Let's be clear, you are not redirecting anything in F5 at this point, all redirects you may receive originate from the end-server. Your iRule is selecting a specific pool, based on the visitors source IP-address. It's all your iRule does.

Now for the Error 404 received when requesting "http://xxx.com/", it is purely related to end-server configuration. If you would like to formulate a maintenance redirect inside F5, have a look at commands 

HTTP::respond 302 location "http://www.maintenance.host"
or 
HTTP::redirect "http://www.maintenance.host"
- both commands invoke a HTTP 302 redirect to your maintenance page location. Cheers.

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abi1980_184094
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Apr 07, 2015
hannes would you be able to explain this part in a little deatil If you would like to formulate a maintenance redirect inside F5, have a look at commands HTTP::respond 302 location "http://www.maintenance.host" or HTTP::redirect "http://www.maintenance.host" - both commands invoke a HTTP 302 redirect to your maintenance page location. Cheers