URI Redirect to main page

Hi James,

Something like this would probably do the trick:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
switch -glob [HTTP::path] {
"/user/manpage/home/*" -
"/admins/manpage/tools/*" -
default {
HTTP::redirect http://www.mysite.com
}
}
}

Add and remove more paths and/or wildcards as necessary.

-George

Hello George,

 

 

That looks like it should work. Now my other question. How can I stack these so that I have the URL "/admins/manpage/tools*" redirect to www.mysite.com/tools/new instead of the main site ? Can I stack it on the same iRuel somehow?

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

James

Hi James,

The hyphens just say, "drop through to the next action." In this case it will drop all the way through to the default action, which is redirect to http://www.mysite.com. If you want to redirect on a specific URL, do this:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
switch -glob [HTTP::path] {
"/admins/manpage/tools/*" { HTTP::redirect http://www.mysite.com/tools/new }
"/user/manpage/home/*" -
default {
HTTP::redirect http://www.mysite.com
}
}
}

Does that help?

-George

Ok, let me take a step back. Looks like it is looping. So my main VIP/site is www.mysite.com

 

 

If I just do your basic URL as follows:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

switch -glob [HTTP::path] {

 

"/user/manpage/home/homesite.htm" -

 

default {

 

HTTP::redirect http://www.mysite.com

 

}

 

}

 

}

 

 

I get a browser error stating the page it going in a redirect loop. Please note that I changed the "/user/manpage/home/*" wildcard to a specific file in that directory if that makes a difference.

 

 

Any ideas? If I redirect it to a page other than the VIP/site, the redirect works fine.

I don't know why you are getting stuck in a redirect loop. My first guess would be that you are also redirecting at the web server. The iRule itself should not be putting you in a redirect loop.

 

 

-George

If /user/manpage/home/homesite.htm references any other objects like css, images, etc, then you'll get a loop. At a minimum, you'd want to allow (not redirect) that URI and any URIs it references.

 

 

Aaron