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pgsmith_120398
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AltostratusRemove URI on sorry server page
I have a very simple irule that just directs traffic to a sorry server pool if there are no pool members available for the requested pool. I also initially remove any URI to ensure that links with UR...
Amazon is displaying a custom 404 page so any page that is not found gets the customer error. You can do this on your server by changing the 404 page the server send back. You can also do this at the f5. If the status code from the server is a 404. You can host the error page on the f5 instead of sending it to a pool of server. Doing this will allow you to send the same page for 500/400 and server down errors. The following link will walk you through the process.
https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/hosting-sorry-error-or-maintenance-pages-on-big-ip-ltm-with-irules.UmFPRRD4KSo
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AltostratusHey Richard, I have a pair of IIS servers configured with the default website binding of *. The default site serves up a custom sorry page and there are dozens of other customized error pages that are bound to their sites URL. This works fine as long as there is no URI. To get around this I remove the URI in my rule. We would prefer the users not get a 404 at all and instead be redirected to the appropriate sorry server page. I initially tried to go the route of hosting the sorry pages on the LTM but we eventually decided not to so we didn't have to give the web developers access to the F5 to update the maintenance pages. There was probably a more intricate route we could have taken but we decided hosting two VMs to use as sorry servers was sufficient with the time we had to set this all up.
