Rewrite URL

I believe what you are looking for is a re-write, not a redirect. Something like:

Condition: http-host host equals a.domainname.com Action:http-uri request replace value: https://newwebservice/Custom/Uri

Updated for pool selection and query string preservation:

ltm policy DV {
    controls { forwarding }
    requires { http }
    rules {
        WebService {
            actions {
                0 {
                    http-uri
                    replace
                    query-string "tcl:[URI::query [HTTP::uri]]"
                    value https://newwebservice/Custom/Uri
                }
                1 {
                    forward
                    select
                    pool newwebservice_pool
                }
            }
            conditions {
                0 {
                    http-host
                    host
                    values { a.domainname.com }
                }
            }
            ordinal 1
        }
    }
    strategy first-match
}

Hi,

Brad, cannot be set as URI but /Custom/URI

this solution will rewrite only request and not answer, and every requests will be rewrite to /Custom/URI.

In irule, you must:

• use string map to replace / to /Custom/URI/ in requests
• use stream command to replace /Custom/URI/ to / in responses

You can create a rewrite profile (type translation).

In this rewrite, define:

• external URL : https://a.domainname.com/
• internal URL :

Thanks Guys!!!

So what is the answer will it work at all with re-write using the Policy or custom iRule has to be configured?

Hi,

I read the article you provide and there is no information that full URL is rewritten but the Full URI

I tried the following policy:

ltm policy Pol_Pool1 {
    controls { forwarding }
    requires { http }
    rules {
        uri-replace {
            actions {
                0 {
                    forward
                    select
                    pool Pool-c-8080
                }
                1 {
                    http-uri
                    replace
                    value https://newwebservice/Custom/Uri
                }
            }
            ordinal 1
        }
    }
    strategy first-match
}

and the request sent to the server was:

GET https://newwebservice/Custom/Uri HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.155.110
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: fr,fr-FR;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive

So http-uri replace value rewrite only URI and not URL... the policy must be:

ltm policy Pol_Pool1 {
    controls { forwarding }
    requires { http }
    rules {
        uri-replace {
            actions {
                0 {
                    forward
                    select
                    pool Pool-c-8080
                }
                1 {
                    http-uri
                    replace
                    value /Custom/Uri
                }
                2 {
                    http-host
                    replace
                    value newwebservice
                }
            }
            ordinal 1
        }
    }
    strategy first-match
}

For the web service, I recommend to define one URI for it and add a condition like:

        conditions {
            0 {
                http-uri
                path
                values { /webservice.php }
            }
        }

Have you looked at the good old ProxyPass -iRule? It can do pretty much of this and more.

Ok, so F5 support came back to me saying this can not be accomplished by the use of Policies.

They send me a link to this iRule:

https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare?sid=646

Which apparently works but they have advised to use Profiles instead which is much simpler.

Anyone has configured it before??

Local Traffic --> Profiles --> Services --> Rewrite

Ok, so F5 support got to the bottom of this and it looks like the images are not loading because they are a different location...

So I will try to simplify this as much as I can:

So we have a server in our network which runs Focalpoint and it's accessible via this link directly:

This URL is case sensitive and has to be exact otherwise the web browser will return an error.

What we would like to do is to make the URL simpler for our users.

The ideal would be:

http://focalpoint.domainname.co.uk

We have tried to re-write client URI to server URI by using Policies, iRules, Profiles but no luck...

The only option which worked was to re-write:

to http://focalpoint.domainname.co.uk

and when typing the address in the web browser we have to manually add /servlet/Login to the URL.

So what users have to type is:

http://focalpoint.domainname.co.uk/servlet/Login

which is not very different from the original URL:

What I have been told by F5 is that actual images are based in "fp" folder not "servlet" folder.

But even if we move the images to the "servlet" folder users will still have to add the "/Login" bit to the URL.

My question to you Guys now is, is there any way of doing this or shall I give up on this?

Hi,

Rewrite profile was a feature in APM to hide all internal URL behind the SSL VPN portal... this feature is now named rewrite portal rewrite.

In version 11.4.0, a new rewrite profile mode appeared : rewrite URI translation which translate one external URL with one internal URL.... this feature is a TMOS feature (available in LTM, ASM, APM)

read the LTM and TMOS release note 11.4.0 :

Rewrite profileThe BIG-IP system now offers a URI translation feature called the Rewrite profile. Using this profile, you can create URI rules that define any URI scheme, host, port, and path modifications that you want the BIG-IP system to apply to HTTP requests and responses passing through the system. You can also create rules to translate information defined in the Set-Cookie header of a request or response.