Redirecting the URI

Hi Shridhar,

What do the logs show when you make a request to abc.com/ and abc.com/timesheets?

You are close on your summary. But there are a few points:

If I typed http://abc.com/timesheets, the Big-IP would first select the pool 'timesheets_http_pool' & try to look into http://server2:40702/timesheets, which is NOT present on the server. Coming to the next condition, since even the second 'if' statement also holds good, the HTTP::path would be changed to "/GroupServer/en" and thats it, the Big-IP is NOT going to again look into the pool for http://server2:40702/GroupServer/en.

LTM is only checking the request details from the client--not checking anything in the server response or what may or may not exist on the server(s). So for a request to abc.com/timesheets, the timesheet_http_pool would be used. If the requested path was exactly /timesheets, the path will be rewritten to /GroupServer/en. Do you need to rewrite the path for other requests which start with /timesheets but aren't exactly "/timesheets"? If so, do you need to preserve part of the requested path in the rewritten path? Maybe /timesheets/anything gets rewritten to /GroupServer/en? If so, you can replace this in the iRule:

 
 if {[HTTP::path] eq "/timesheets"}{ 
      Rewrite path 
     HTTP::path "/GroupServer/en" 
     log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: Rewriting path to /GroupServer/en" 
 }  
 

with this:

 
  Rewrite path mapping /timesheets to /GroupServer/en 
 HTTP::path [string map {/timesheets /GroupServer/en} [HTTP::path]] 
 log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: Rewriting path to [string map {/timesheets /GroupServer/en} [HTTP::path]]" 
 

Suppose I typed http://abc.com/Shridhar, the Big-IP would firstly choose the default_http_pool and will try to look for http://server1:30945/Shridhar.

The next 'if' statement would get executed only if I have typed http://abc.com/.

Exactly correct.

OK....I type http://abc.com/ in the browser now.

The Big-IP selects the default_http_pool and tries to look into http://server1:30945/ and will not find any data (because the data exists in http://server1:30945/primaveraweb).

The next 'if' statement will also get executed because I only typed http://abc.com/ this time. But the action now taken is to only change the HTTP path from '/' to '/primaveraweb' and thats it. The Big-IP again is NOT gonna select the default_http_pool and look into http://server1:30945/primaveraweb as that part is already executed.

Both the pool selection and the path rewrite are done, so a request for http://abc.com/ will get sent to the default pool and because the requested path was / it will be rewritten to /primavera.

Aaron