Masking the URI and also redirecting!

A few comments:

- if a client types in www.example.com (without any path), the browser will append a forward slash to the URL (http://example.com) and the path will be "/"

- if you send a redirect to the client with a 30x status, the browser will make a request to the Location header value

- if you send a 20x response to the client, the client will ignore any Location header value as it's not an expected header

It sounds like you just want to redirect clients who request the root document to /home and send all other requests to the VIP's default pool. If that's the case, this rule should work for you:

  
 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  
    if {[HTTP::path] eq "/"}{  
       HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://site.com/home"  
    }  
 }  
 

Aaron