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Brendan_Newell_
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratusuri rewrite rule
If anyone can provide any assistance with the following then it would be much appreciated:
I have a customer who wants an irule to rewrite the uri so that when the user connects to the virtual server, they are passed through to the backend host with a slightly different uri.
eg.
user connects to http://www.virtualserver.com/test/index.html
user is directed to http://www.backendhost.com/sample/test/index.html
Many thanks!
6 Replies
- So you're looking for something like this, I believe:
when HTTP_REQUEST { if{([HTTP::host] equals "virtualserver") and ([HTTP::uri] contains "test")} { HTTP::redirect "http://www.backendhost.com/sample[HTTP::uri]" } } -Colin 
Brian_Gupta_115Colin,
I don't think he is looking for a redirect... It seems he is looking for a transparent URI rewrite:
HTTP::uri "sample[HTTP::uri]"
Cheers,
Brian
Brendan_Newell_Many thanks guys, we have actually solved this now - I didnt think anyone was reading this thread so I didnt update it.
Cheers anyway :-)- You can use the HTTP::uri command to change the URI passed to the backend server.
Check out my blog post covering this one:
http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/joe/archive/2005/07/27/ModifyingUriWithoutRedirect.aspx
Click here
-Joe 
Thomas_LaubrockReally!
Is it so simple?
Thanks
Thomas
hoolioCirrostratus
Hi Don,
Can you enable debug on the iRule and post the anonymized logs from /var/log/ltm for a request to the home page and the following references? Can you use a browser plugin like HttpFox for Firefox or Fiddler for IE to see what is wrong with the image references?
Aaron
