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Joe_Pipitone
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Jan 26, 2011

Stripping part of URI and integrating with iRule

I have to perform the following: http://www.oursite.org/directory1/directory2/somepage.aspx needs to rewrite to http://oursite.org/somepage.aspx - essentially just stripping out directory1 and dir...
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Chris_Miller's avatar
Chris_Miller
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Jan 26, 2011
My pleasure...also, I forgot a "/" so that's why the number 2 was getting placed onto your site name.

Give this a shot. We'll tweak the number of characters for string range to make it work. 


when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/directory1/directory2" } {
        HTTP::redirect "http://oursite.org/[string range [HTTP::uri] 11 end ]" 
        log local0. "/directory1/directory2 found, redirected"
   } 
}