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BrianG_11931
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NimbostratusSharePoint Redirect To New Path Using Public Name
Hello, I'm trying to use the following code to redirect public traffic over a secure link (https://) to a SharePoint 2013 server that's listening on port "33230" at "/sites/BI/". I did this befor...
The port number is usually not going to be included in HTTP::host for 80/443 requests. And, if this virtual server is using a client SSL profile, then your redirect based on the port 80 case will never get triggered.
You'll need to create a virtual server at port 80 using the same IP address, and apply the _sys_https_redirect iRule to it. That will redirect all http:// unencrypted connections to your SSL virtual server, which should have something similar to the rule I posted above attached to it.
IIRC, HTTP::redirect is basically the same as "HTTP::respond 302 Location: ". HTTP::respond gives you more control if you want to include other headers, cookies, etc with your response.
I am not sure that using the custom port number for your pool members will work, because SharePoint is expecting a certain URL scheme for requests to a particular zone. Ports 443 and 33230 would need to have their own zones in Alternate Access Mappings. I have never tried that...you may want to experiment a bit with that.
BrianG_11931I actually have 1 iRule used in both a VS @ port 80 and VS @ port 443. I'm using code with-in my iRule to redirect instead of "_sys_https_redirect" because I use some other code in the iRule which is not relevant to this issue. Good point about port not being included for 80/443 requests. I updated my code to switch on "[TCP::local_port]" instead. I played around with the Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) and I could setup the server for traffic coming in from 443 (to port 33230) and I see the URL that I want in the browser finally (https://dashboards.domain.com/sites/BI/_layouts...), but I get the error message "Sorry, something went wrong. An unexpected error has occurred". My account has access to the site, so that shouldn't be an issue.