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Tyron_Fourie_18's avatar
Tyron_Fourie_18
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Oct 29, 2015

Redirect URL

Hi,   I am looking to redirect http://www.examplesite.com/Examplepage.html to an external site like http://www.externalsite.com/   As I understand it there are multiple ways to do this so I hav...
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  • Karthik_Krishn1's avatar
    Karthik_Krishn1
    Oct 30, 2015

    I had a similar situation. What i did was: * create a pool with no active members * create a VS and assign this pool to it * create an irule which looked at the of active members in the pool and if is 0 then redirect to external URL The irule is as below:

     

    when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [active_members TS-EmptyPool] == 0 }{ HTTP::redirect "https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/eg.survey" } }

     

    karthik

     

IheartF5_45022's avatar
IheartF5_45022
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Oct 29, 2015

Assuming the virtual only hosts a single domain

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if {[string tolower [HTTP::path]] eq "/examplepage.html"} {
       HTTP::respond 301 noserver Location "http://www.externalsite.com/"
       return
    }
}

Otherwise if www.examplesite.com is a vhost on the virtual try this;-

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if {[string tolower [HTTP::path]] eq "/examplepage.html" && [getfield [HTTP::host] : 1] eq "www.examplesite.com"} {
       HTTP::respond 301 noserver Location "http://www.externalsite.com/"
       return
    }
}

Now as to what's best/easiest....it's a matter of personal taste really. For me an iRule is easiest, however in theory a Local Traffic Policy or Rewrite Service is more efficient. Try them all and see what suits you....

Let me know if the iRule doesn't work for you.....

  • Tyron_Fourie_18's avatar
    Tyron_Fourie_18
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    Oct 30, 2015
    Hi, Either doesn't work for me. The same page just loads.