redirection but url not change on browser

You can certainly rewrite the host header between LTM and the pool member, but are you trying to transparently send the user's info to whatever pass.xyz.com resolves to instead?

Something like this should work for you Dharmendra:

 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
 if { [HTTP::header host] eq "test.abc.com" } { 
 HTTP::header replace Host "pass.xyz.com" 
 } 
 } 

The users will still use the URL test.abc.com, their URL will stay the same and the data that is passed on to the servers will contain the new host header info.

Thanks.

 

 

I will test it .

 

Hi Naladar, its not working, my exact requirement is that if user type www.abc.com/aaa should redirect to www.xyz.com, latter is not in our network its some blogsite. Thanks

As far as I know, you won't be able to do that transparently. If you could, it would be awfully easy to get around browser security measures.

 

 

It's simple to send the user a redirect but I can't think of a way to redirect them to a different site transparently. Maybe others will have an idea.

is it possible to reach the blog site via the pool of virtual server e.g. gateway pool?

As Nitass suggests, you could still transparently proxy requests to the second site even if it's not directly on an LTM subnet. LTM would need to have a route to the site. You'd want to rewrite the host header on requests as Naladar has shown and select a pool with the server(s) for the second site configured. If you need to dynamically look up the IP address(es) for the second site, you could do this with an iRule which calls RESOLV::lookup (http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/resolv__lookup). You'd probably need to SNAT the serverside connection as well.

 

 

Aaron

Hi Aaron, actually second website is not in our domain, it is a public website like google.com, is it still possible to rewrite public url with our own url. In other words, users are seeing our url and they are actually accessing some public blogsite. Thanks

Hi Puneet,

 

 

As long as LTM has a route to the IP address(es), it doesn't matter who "owns" the server. You can transparently proxy traffic to the site. See my post above for details on how to do this. If you try an iRule and get stuck let us know.

 

 

Aaron