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Nimbostratus

Mar 23, 2015

Redirect based on part of path

I need to have a single vhost name (this.example.com) going to multiple applications depending on the first part of the path extension, then need to eliminate that first part of the path extension wh...

Nacreous

Mar 23, 2015

Hi Steve,

the

findstr

function will help:

when HTTP_REQUEST { 
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "this.example.com" } {
        if { [string tolower [HTTP::path]] starts_with "/documents/" } {
            HTTP::redirect "http://serverA:8080[findstr [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] "/documents" [string length "/documents"]]"
        } elseif { [string tolower [HTTP::path]] starts_with "/logs/" } {
            HTTP::redirect "http://serverB[findstr [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] "/logs" [string length "/logs"]]"
        } elseif { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/reports/" } {
            HTTP::redirect "http://serverB[findstr [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] "/reports" [string length "/reports"]]"
        } else {
            HTTP::redirect "http://this.example.com[HTTP::uri]"
        }
    }
}

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