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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

Can you try the following command from the cli on your f5 system ?

curl -H "Host: VIPIP" http://backend_Serverip/VendorProd/pcas/request.aspx

You can add -I to check for response headers : 

curl -I -H "Host: VIPIP" http://backend_Serverip/VendorProd/pcas/request.aspx

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    Srini_Vaiyapuri
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    Jun 13, 2016
    Below is the output. server url doesn't work with IP, it only works with hostname http://testwa84/VendorProd/pcas/request.aspx HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Content-Length: 315 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 15:55:55 GMT Connection: close ---------------------------- Not Found Not Found

    HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.