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Brad_146558's avatar
Brad_146558
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Mar 20, 2015

Trouble with redirect

I'm trying to write a redirect from the root level of a domain(ex domain.com), to www.domain.com. I know the best and easiest way would be to just put a redirect on the web server, but as sane as tha...
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Hannes_Rapp's avatar
Hannes_Rapp
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Mar 20, 2015

Notice the error with "http://" string in your host equals statement? Protocol is not part of the HTTP host header 🙂

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP::host] equals "domain.com" }
  { HTTP::redirect "http://www.domain.com" }
}

A more universal solution for the missing www. problem is below (a single iRule can be used repeatedly for multiple applications):

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { not([HTTP::host] starts_with "www.") } {
    HTTP::respond 302 location "http://www.[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]"
    event disable
    TCP::close
  }
}