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Joseph_Cannon_4
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratusredirect and use same pool
We would like to change the hostname of the website and have user dynamically redirected, even if they have it bookmarked with a long uri.
DNS resolves the same for both names.
Here is what I thought would have worked.
if (http_host contains "abc") {
redirect to "https://cba.mycompany.com/%u"
use pool cba
}
else {
use pool cba
}
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
- a redirect will send a HTTP redirect to the url you specify back to the browser so you don't need to specify the "use pool cba" after the redirect.
If you set your default pool on your virtual to "cba", then your rule could be as simple as thisif (http_host contains "abc" ) { redirect to "https://cba.mycompany.com/%u" }
The things you need to watch out for in situations like this is to avoid a recursive loop. In this case the redirect will only occur if "abc" is in the host and you are redirecting to a host that does not contain "abc" so you should be safe.
-Joe - Disregard the comment about omitting the default pool. I was thinking BIG-IP v9.x, not 4.x.
-Joe - In BIG-IP v4.x "redirect to" and "use pool" statements are mutually exclusive. There is also little reason why to pick a node to answer the request if the rule has already determined that redirect (HTTP 302) need to be returned.
