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Kevin_Stewart
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Sep 17, 2013

The problem is this:

 

www1.corp.com resolves to a public IP address and a server that (I assume) sits somewhere else (at least it doesn't go through the LTM).

 

Your VIP has a separate public IP address. Because the users are external to your environment, the only real control you have is via DNS and address resolution. www1.corp.com resolves to one physical address and your VIP resolves to another, and you can't have www1.corp.com resolve to your VIP unless you're actually taking it over. You simply cannot have the browser show www1.corp.com in the address bar but be going to your VIP (a different URL). You could:

 

  1. Flip DNS to point to your VIP and have the traffic pass through the LTM to get to the original server (least intrusive method).

     

  2. Have the original server redirect to a URL that is only subtlety different.

     

  3. Or simply have the original server redirect to a NEW (and improved) URL.