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Peter_Bevington
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Aug 21, 2013

Sharepoint Site Redirections using HTTPClass or iRules

I have a client who is moving their sharepoint sites on an individual basis along the lines of

 

Source http://host1/site1/library1/location1 http://host1/site1/library2/location2 http://host1/site1/library3/location3 Destination http://host2/site1/library1/ocation1 http://host2/site1/library3/ocation3

 

So only redirecting particular locations. I'm not a sharepoint person either.

 

I can write an iRule to pick out the host and specific URI etc OR I can write multiple HTTPCLASS profiles which do the same thing. The issue is that there are currently around 40 redirections required, so in practical terms this equates to an iRule with 40 or so duplicated entries or 40 or so HTTPCLASS-es asociated with the VS.

 

Has anyone had any experience in this type of senario where I can get some advice what would be the best approach.

 

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  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Aug 21, 2013

    Just my humble opinion, but managing that list of hosts/URIs and associated redirects is by far most easily done with a data group and a very simple iRule. Example:

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [class match [string tolower [HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]] starts_with my_sp_datagroup] } {
        HTTP::redirect "https://[class match -value [string tolower [HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]] starts_with my_sp_datagroup]"
    }
}