URI rewrite assistance

Question

Hello all,
I am looking to hopefully do a simple irule uri rewrite, but this one is stumping me.  I have a request to rewrite a uri from: http://somehost.com/reports/api/ to http://somehost.com/reports/api/v1/.  Simple enough, and I got that to work with the irule below.  But, they have several uri's that start with something different, so instead of reports it could be /admin/, /card/, /fee/ etc...  I prefer the irule to be dynamic if possible and not have to list each directory out, and if possible use an asterisks or something for matching on */api/ and rewrite to */api/vi/.  Hopefully this makes sense.
Those would look like:
http://somehost.com/admin/api/
http://somehost.com/card/api/
http://somehost.com/fee/api/
So, is there a way to write an irule and use an asterrisks
when HTTP_REQUEST {    
 if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/reports/api/" } {
   set uri [string map -nocase {"/reports/api/" "/reports/api/v1/"} [HTTP::uri]]
   HTTP::uri $uri
 }
}

Any help is appreciated.

p_k · Answer

Try this..  should work&nbsp;
when HTTP_REQUEST {    
&nbsp;
if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] ends_with "/api/" } &nbsp;
   {&nbsp;
   HTTP::redirect http://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]v1/ &nbsp;
   }&nbsp;
}    
&nbsp;
If your VIP is on port 443, change  HTTP::redirect https://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]v1/&nbsp;

giog · Answer

None of that worked, but the "contains" lead me downt he correct path.  Here is the final irule.
when HTTP_REQUEST {    
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] contains "/api/" } {
    set uri [string map -nocase {"/api/" "/api/v1/"} [HTTP::uri]]
       HTTP::uri $uri
    }
}

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