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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's avatar
    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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brightstar_uk_2
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Hi, I'm trying to setup something similar but getting an issue with the vserver being up.

 

I want to re-direct all 443 traffic from the vserver to an external url. 80 will just re-direct to 443. I think i'm ok with that but my virtual server is down. this is because it thinks the pool member(s) are down but there are no pool members as I just need it to re-direct to external.

 

my question is how do I get around this?

 

I tried to create a pool with no members and changed the Irule to show the following:

 

when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [active_members Pool_test] == 0 }{ HTTP::redirect "" } }

 

however, that still doesn't bring it up.

 

any help would be great

 

thanks in advance

 

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StephanManthey
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Dec 04, 2015
Hi, if you are using your virtual servers for redirection only there is no need to assign a pool. Having an iRule to redirect to the external location is just fine. Your virtual servers will remain in "blue" (unknown) state. No test for number of available servers is required. I hope I got your question right. Thanks, Stephan