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tolinrome_13817
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Jul 17, 2014

Need to redirect to an external url

We want our users to be redirected to a secondary external url when they access the first url.   For example: When our users go to https://application.ourdomain.com (which points to our F5), I wan...
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    Prash_Bharadwaj
    Jul 17, 2014

    You may use this irule to do so.

     

    when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [HTTP::host] equals "https://application.ourdomain.com" } { HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://external.link.com" } }

     

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Thank you for replying.

 

Do I need to create a vip and redirect rule or just the vip? Does ssl client need to be enabled at all?

 

Also, the first url users will access is http not https, so I dont know if that matters where you wrote:

 

"equals "https://application.ourdomain.com" - should that be changed to http?

 

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Mike_G_is_1_134
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Jul 17, 2014
I don't think that you need to put the "https://" part into the if comparison. HTTP::host is just the host value, in your example "application.ourdomain.com". As an alternative, you could also use the HTTP::redirect function instead of responding with the 301. Just a suggestion.