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gdoyle
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Jun 06, 2019

Masking a URL?

I have a customer who has a contract that is requiring that we hide what is essentially an internal URL. Right now when people go to the site they see: https://subdomain.companya.com What th...
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  • Dario_Garrido's avatar
    Dario_Garrido
    Jun 07, 2019

    Nothing is imposible on F5 🙂

    First of all, you need to configure your customer DNS to reach one F5's virtual server (subdomain.differentdomain.com).

    This VS has to have a pool of nodes of the new domain (subdomain.companya.com).

    After that, yo can replace the host header using an iRule like this.

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
   # Check if requested host starts with subdomain.differentdomain.com
   if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] eq "subdomain.differentdomain.com" } {
      # Replace the host header value with subdomain.companya.com
      HTTP::header replace Host "subdomain.companya.com"
   }
}

    KR,

    Dario.

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Dario_Garrido
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Hello gdoyle

 

If I understood well...

 

You want to hide this domain ->

subdomain.companya.com

And you want to show this domain instead ->

subdomain.differentdomain.com

 

For this reason, your configuration should be something like this:

 

CUSTOMER -> VS (subdomain.differentdomain.com) -> POOL (subdomain.companya.com)

 

In case you need something totaly opposite. you just have to replace one domain for another in the iRule and the schema.

 

KR,

Dario.

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gdoyle
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Jun 12, 2019

Thank you!