redirect example.xx to www.example.xx

So all you need to do is redirect anything that comes in without www to the www prepended version?

That's straight-forward:

 
 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
   if { !([HTTP::host] starts_with "www.") } { 
     HTTP::redirect "http://www.[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]" 
   } 
 } 
 

This will take any request coming in to a domain that does not begin with www., and redirect it to the exact same place, but with www. at the beginning of the host name. Of course, this would apply to all domains. If you wanted to limit it to just the domains you listed you could add in a switch statement or a class search, something like that.

Is this what you were looking for?

Colin

Hi Colin,

 

 

thats great thanks, how would you add in a swtich statement or class search of data list group, so it make it easier to add domains, etc, etc

 

 

thanks again

 

 

James

This is domain independent, [HTTP::host] returns the domain that was submitted, and then just prepends www. to it. Now, if you're going to redirect to different domains/uri's based on source, welll that's a different story. Can you provide an example scenario?

What i'm wanting to achieve, is the following

 

just say over the years we have numerous different domains that all used to display different web sites and now we want all the old domain names to point and re-point to their local geographical web site

 

from my first post, our database will only except these address:

 

www.abc.co.uk

 

www.abc.nl

 

www.abc.be

 

so on and so on

 

So I want to redirect any abc.xx to www.abc.xx (xx being geographical suffix)

 

for example, our main UK site is www.abc.co.uk

 

all our old domains that we want to repoint would be

 

abc.co.uk

 

www.zxy.co.uk

 

zxy.co.uk

 

def.co.uk

 

www.def.co.uk

 

ghk.co.uk

 

www.ghk.co.uk

 

then the same for our dutch sites, www.abc.nl

 

abc.nl

 

www.zxy.nl

 

zxy.nl

 

def.nl

 

www.def.nl

 

ghk.nl

 

www.ghk.nl

 

if its possible, can we use a "data list group" to make administering all these domains eaiser in thr future ?

 

I hope this all makes sense

If you only want to redirect domains which are listed in a datagroup, you could define them in a datagroup in lowercase and then use an iRule like this:

 
 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  
     Check if Host header is present with a length 
    if {[string length [HTTP::host]]}{ 
  
        Save host header value in lowercase 
       set host [string tolower [HTTP::host]] 
  
        Check if Host header does not start with www 
       if {!($host starts_with "www.")}{ 
  
           Check if host is listed in the domain datagroup 
          if {[matchclass $host equals $::domains_to_redirect]}{ 
  
              Redirect client to same URI but with www prepended to the host header value 
             HTTP::redirect "http://www.[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]"  
          } 
       } 
    } 
 } 
 

Aaron