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MABSJ
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Jan 28, 2020

LTM iRule to access F5 file

Hello team,   With an iRule is it possible to redirect a URL to a local file within F5 itself? For example, when accessing to the url http://example.com/local/etc/file1  where example.com is ...
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cjunior
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Jan 28, 2020

Hi,

Why don't you do it by creating ifiles and run in a statement?

e.g.

GET http://exmple.com/Common/file1

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [catch { set ifileContent [ifile get [HTTP::path]] }] } {
        HTTP::respond 404 content "File not found"
    } else {
        HTTP::respond 200 content $ifileContent
        unset ifileContent
    }
}

You can also manage that files by command line or iControl.

References:

https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/syncing-local-repositories-with-ifiles-1082

https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-implementations-13-0-0/9.html

https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/iFile.html

Regards.