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dkinsler_23191
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Oct 13, 2010

Redirect without rewriting host portion of URL

Hello all, I have a question about Redirecting. I have two VIPs and each has its own URL. I want one to redirect to the other under certain cconditions but I dont want the URL to change hosts. For instance....

 

 

I have mydomain1.com and mydomain2.com This Irule would be placed on mydomain1.com to redirect the contect to mydomain2.com if the URI starts with /stuff.

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/stuff"} { HTTP::redirect "http://mydomain2.com/[HTTP::uri]" } }

 

 

The problem is, I dont want the users browser to see the domain change, but I want to get the contect from mydomain2.

 

 

Anybody have any ideas on how that should be done? Both vips are internal to the LB.
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7 Replies

  • Chris_Miller's avatar
    Chris_Miller
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    Oct 13, 2010
    I'm assuming you have different pools for each VIP?

     

     

    Would it be acceptable to simply use the other pool?

     

     

    Using your code:

     

     

    
when HTTP_REQUEST {
 {if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/stuff" } {
    pool pool_mydomain2 } {
else pool pool_mydomain1 }}
  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Oct 13, 2010
    If you want to hide the change in hostname from the client you would want to rewrite the Host header value and potentially select a different pool to send the requests to. You wouldn't want to send a redirect back to the client as this will update the address bar and the client will see the change. Is there a separate pool that serves content for mydomain2.com? Or is it the same as mydomain1.com?

     

     

    Aaron
  • Chris_Miller's avatar
    Chris_Miller
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    Oct 13, 2010
    No worries Aaron.

     

     

    This type of rule would also require OneConnect, right? If we're evaluating every HTTP request and sending certain ones to different pools?

     

  • Ben_95489's avatar
    Ben_95489
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    Oct 13, 2010
    That's a great point, Chris.

     

     

    While it may work (for the most part) without OneConnect, it's certainly a much better idea to enable it now instead of waiting for something to break later. Even if individual clients are only going to make requests for a single domain per connection, there are still lots of things that will reuse connections for more than one request - especially CDNs. They will often even reuse the same connection for requests from a myriad of different users.

     

     

    // Ben

     

  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Oct 14, 2010
    If it's a different pool for each host name, you'd want to use an iRule like Chris suggested. You'd probably also want to rewrite the Host header if the different pool members expect a specific hostname. You can do this with "HTTP::header replace Host newhost.example.com".

     

     

    Aaron