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Mel_153429's avatar
Mel_153429
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Dec 17, 2015

Need help creating a irule to reverse proxy .

I need some help creating an irule to reverse proxy to an external website. I would like to keep the original uri when it proxy to the external site. I have workup the start of a simple irule not sur...
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Kai_Wilke's avatar
Kai_Wilke
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Dec 21, 2015

Hi Mel,

in my opinion the iRule below would be the last "easy" implementation method.

If this iRules is not working out, then you SHOULD ask your provider to accept the hostname "www.lightsource.com" for the blog website and ask them to store every related content underneath of the path "/blog" without any exeptions.

If the provider can't do / is willing to do this, then you have to dig into the web site content and start to translate included URLs, HTTP-Redirects, etc. But this would then require some deeper HTTP/HTML knowledge and some time to figure out what needs to be changed... 

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] eq "www.lightsource.com" and [HTTP::path] starts_with "/blog" } {
        HTTP::replace Host lightsource.wpengine.com
        pool test-reverse-proxy 
    }
}

Cheers, Kai