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ushan
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Sep 20, 2022

Multiple application in single server

I have a server which hosts multiple applications, like; example1.max.com, example2.max.com, example3.max.com and so on. I have only one server so I could make only one Node in F5 and all the appli...
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ushan
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Hi PSFletchTheTek, 

Yes this can definitely work. But the applications that are hosted in that single server are public applications and need to be accessed publicly.  With the solution you have provided would require Public IP for each application(Virtual Server). And I have only one public IP available for that server. So I can only make one Virtual Server in my case.

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Kevin_Stewart
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Sep 20, 2022

That's not what he's saying. You create a single client-facing VIP and use an LTM (CPM) policy to VIP target to the set of application VIPs that are not externally exposed. Traffic comes to the frontend VIP and LTM policy steers the traffic to one of the backend application VIPs based on HTTP Host. 

You're only exposing one publich IP at the frontend VIP. 

So you can use this single frontend VIP to either VIP target to backend application VIPs, or you can use the LTM policy to directly attach the WAF policy to the one frontend VIP. For the latter, you'd also need to dynamically assign the pool and (optionally) server SSL.