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EtienneMT_32950
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Aug 27, 2017

Multiple Websites hosted on the same port 80

Good Evening,

 

I currently have a server pool listening on port 80, which has multiple websites hosted on it and filtered by host headers. Is there a way with BIGIP to disable hostheader (example) from being sent to node 1 which is in a server pool with other servers?

 

Basically I would like to be able to disabled sending request to particular node within a server pool for a particular host header in case there is an issue on that particular website.

 

Regards, Etienne

 

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  • Kai_Wilke's avatar
    Kai_Wilke
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    Aug 28, 2017

    Hi EtienneMT,

    Basically I would like to be able to disabled sending request to particular node within a server pool for a particular host header in case there is an issue on that particular website.

    The recommended way to achive your requirement is to create a dedicated pool for each individual web application (in your case always pointing to the same set of nodes) and use a handcrafted Health-Monitor for each pool/web application to check for the web application availability on the individual pool members.

    Then simply parse the 

    [HTTP::host]
    value for each arriving HTTP-Request and forward the request to the designated pool name for this application.

    Cheers, Kai