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Tyson_James's avatar
Tyson_James
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Jun 05, 2020

Redirect to another URL after timeout detected

Is there a way for a BIG-IP to display a message such as “This site has moved, please note the new URL." and then redirect to the new page in 10 seconds.
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jaikumar_f5's avatar
jaikumar_f5
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Dec 23, 2020

Yes its doable, I've done some recently too. But I used the Ifile method, but the concept is same,

Create an Ifile with below content,

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10; url=https://www.newwebsite.com" />
</head>
<body><p><center>This URL is being retired. You are being redirected to new site -<a href="https://www.newwebsite.com">New Website name</a>.</center></p>
</body>
</html>

Then load that ifile in Irule,

when HTTP_REQUEST {
        if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/index.html"}{
        HTTP::respond 200 content [ifile get "new-website.html"] "Content-Type" "text/html"
        }
    }
}