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helloworld
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Dec 07, 2022

Route traffic to specific sorry server path

Hi all, Quick background on simple setup: I have virtual server setup with 443 with two pool members it has no ssl offloading on F5 it and no http profile setup, the condition for traffic to be sen...
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    Kai_Wilke
    Dec 13, 2022

    Hi Helloworld,

    yes, you would need to install the sites SSL certificates on your F5 to intercept/terminate/ansylse/offload the HTTPS communication (many names for the same approach). Without doing this, the F5 would not be able to to interact with your client on the HTTP protocol layer. This layer is required to perform HTTP redirects.

    And yes, if the Sorry web server support lets say .htaccess or mod_rewrite you can teach the Sorry server to redirect or rewrite request for "/" (Root-Web) to the "/down" maintenance page. you would fix your issues on the server itself...

    Cheers, Kai

     

     

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helloworld
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When you say SSL inspection I would need to get the certs installed on the F5 in order to be able to decrypt to allow the LTM to make intelligent decesions to be able to redirect? Would you say from the F5 prespective without the offloading the certs on the F5 we can't forward the traffic to specfic url on to the sorry server?

Since i belive they are running Apache for the sorry server on the backend it might support .htaccess or mod_rewrite. Is your train of thought maybe having them doing it at the server level if it supports htaccess or mod_rewrite? 

 

 

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Kai_Wilke
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Dec 13, 2022

Hi Helloworld,

yes, you would need to install the sites SSL certificates on your F5 to intercept/terminate/ansylse/offload the HTTPS communication (many names for the same approach). Without doing this, the F5 would not be able to to interact with your client on the HTTP protocol layer. This layer is required to perform HTTP redirects.

And yes, if the Sorry web server support lets say .htaccess or mod_rewrite you can teach the Sorry server to redirect or rewrite request for "/" (Root-Web) to the "/down" maintenance page. you would fix your issues on the server itself...

Cheers, Kai