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Misty_Spillers
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Oct 04, 2011

Omiting a portion of a redirect

This seems like it would be easy but just can't quite find the answer.

 

 

One of our customers used to be hosted under our main web site now they have moved the site to a vanity domain. I'm trying to redirect possible book marks to the old site but I need to omit part of the uri.

 

 

So they want http://www.oursite.com/theirsite/about.shtml to go to http://www.theirsite.com/about.shtml

 

 

The way I normally do this is: (this is in a long rule handling other stuff as well so that's why it not properly formatted)

 

 

 

if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] contains "oursite.com" and [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/theirsite" } {

 

HTTP::redirect "http://www.theirsite.com/[HTTP::uri]"

 

} else {

 

 

But it ends up http://www.theirsite.com/theirsite/about.shtml

 

 

any easy way to omit the /theirsite?

 

 

 

 

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  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    Oct 04, 2011
    URI::path

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.URI__path.ashx

     

     

    hth
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    nitass
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    Oct 04, 2011
    sorry i think this may be easier. 

    [root@tulip:Active] config  b virtual bar list
virtual bar {
   destination 172.28.17.66:http
   ip protocol tcp
   rules myrule
   profiles
      http
      tcp
}
[root@tulip:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
   if {[string tolower [HTTP::host]] ends_with "oursite.com" and [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/theirsite"} {
      HTTP::redirect "http://www.theirsite.com[string range [HTTP::uri] 10 end]"
   }
}
}

[root@tulip:Active] config  curl -I http://www.oursite.com/theirsite/test/about.shtml
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://www.theirsite.com/test/about.shtml
Server: BigIP
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 0