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Srini_Vaiyapuri
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Jun 13, 2016

URL not working via F5 VIP but works via direct access to the server.

Web server is assigned as node to a VIP in LTM on port 80. When we access the server directly it works ( but its not working when we access via VIP URL ( We I ran tcpdump, the client request is hitti...
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  • Yann_Desmarest_'s avatar
    Yann_Desmarest_
    Jun 13, 2016

    Hi,

     

    Do you have some virtual host configuration set up on your webserver ?

     

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Yann_Desmarest
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Jun 13, 2016

Hi,

 

Do you have some virtual host configuration set up on your webserver ?

 

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    Srini_Vaiyapuri
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    Jun 13, 2016
    Yes. FQDN of the webserver is configured in web server.
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    Srini_Vaiyapuri
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    Jun 14, 2016
    quick question on this, when you say virtual host configuration, you mean F5 VIP IP or hostname configuration on the webserver? Could you please clarify on this?
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    Yann_Desmarest
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    Jun 14, 2016
    I was talking about the host configuration on the backend webserver. By default, there is no host restriction on the bigip.
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    Yann_Desmarest
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    Jun 14, 2016
    You can do a test by changing the hostname in your hosts file so that the fqdn resolve the Virtual Server IP addr for you and you can define if everything goes fine or not.