Redirect

can you try something like this?

e.g.

 config

root@(ve11a)(cfg-sync In Sync)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) list ltm virtual bar
ltm virtual bar {
    destination 172.28.24.10:80
    ip-protocol tcp
    mask 255.255.255.255
    pool foo
    profiles {
        http { }
        tcp { }
    }
    rules {
        qux
    }
    source 0.0.0.0/0
    source-address-translation {
        type automap
    }
    vs-index 7
}
root@(ve11a)(cfg-sync In Sync)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) list ltm pool foo
ltm pool foo {
    members {
        200.200.200.101:80 {
            address 200.200.200.101
        }
    }
}
root@(ve11a)(cfg-sync In Sync)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) list ltm rule qux
ltm rule qux {
    when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP::host] equals "apps.dev.geowessex.com" and [HTTP::path] starts_with "/explorer" } {
    HTTP::header replace Host "explorer.dev.geowessex.com"
    HTTP::uri [string map {"/explorer" ""} [HTTP::uri]]
    node 200.200.200.111
  }
}
}

 trace

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  ssldump -Aed -nni 0.0 port 80
New TCP connection 1: 100.100.100.28(39498) <-> 172.28.24.10(80)
1409906668.3057 (0.0049)  C>S
---------------------------------------------------------------
GET /explorer/something HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/1.0.1h zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
Accept: */*
Host: apps.dev.geowessex.com

---------------------------------------------------------------

New TCP connection 2: 200.200.200.14(39498) <-> 200.200.200.111(80)
1409906668.4753 (0.1675)  C>S
---------------------------------------------------------------
GET /something HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/1.0.1h zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
Accept: */*
Host: explorer.dev.geowessex.com

---------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Nitass,

 

Will this work on ASM as that's what I'm using ? and is there a more simpler way of doing it ?

 

Many Thanks

 

Will this work on ASM as that's what I'm using ?

 

i thought you do not own explorer.dev.geowessex.com. so, you do not want asm for explorer.dev.geowessex.com, do you?

 

is there a more simpler way of doing it ?

 

you may try rewrite profile.

 

Manual Chapter: Configuring the BIG-IP System as a Reverse Proxy Server

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-11-4-0/21.html

 

Hi Nitass,

 

What I’m trying to do is this;

 

User puts https://apps.dev.geowessex.com/explorer (195.49.180.209) in there browser, I want this to remain in there browser but then re point them to an internal server (172.17.32.143) and put this in explorer.dev.geowessex.com because this is the correct information so this server will respond correctly.

 

But I have to maintain for the user this in the browser https://apps.dev.geowessex.com/explorer

 

So to maintain this in the browser could you not rewrite the response back to always use this?

 

Simple redirects I can do via an Irule but I don’t have the knowledge to right one to do this.

 

So to maintain this in the browser could you not rewrite the response back to always use this?

 

there is no url in response. you may try http analyzer tool to see how request and response look like.

 

HttpFox

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/httpfox/

 

But I have to maintain for the user this in the browser https://apps.dev.geowessex.com/explorer

 

to not change url in browser but url sending to server, you can use HTTP::header (to change host header) and HTTP::uri (to change uri) commands. what i posted is just an example. it may not fully work due to web application behavior. in that case, you may have to capture packet and see what wrong is.

 

sol10209: Overview of packet tracing with the ssldump utility

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/10000/200/sol10209.html

 

hope this helps.