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mtalebi_64623
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Jul 19, 2010

Newbie - How to do Apache like rewrites/redirects in F5 Load Balancer?

Hello,     I am completely new to using load balancers so please forgive me if my questions sound naive. We have always used Apache rewrites to redirect URLs. We are in the process of creating a...
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hoolio
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Jul 19, 2010
As Chris suggested, you can definitely do Apache style rewrites and redirects efficiently in an iRule. There are a lot of examples in the Codeshare and iRule forum. You can find related posts if you search the iRule forums for "mod_rewrite".

 

 

If you have a lot of source/targets to rewrite or redirect, it would be clean and efficient to add them to a string datagroup and then use findclass (v9) or class (v10) to look them up. Here are another couple of links:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/class (v10)

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/findclass (v9)

 

 

Aaron