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MSK_222682
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Feb 04, 2016

URL redirection with retaining the original on browsers

Hi All, I have a requirement whereby the user would try to access www.test.com but it needs to be redirected to www.test.abc.com, which is hosted in our environment. Business doesn't want to publ...
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BinaryCanary_19
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Feb 04, 2016

You can accomplish this with Rewrite Profile: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-11-5-1/23.html?sr=51290275

 

You could also point the DNS records for www.test.com to abc.com and simply use the same pool for abc.com as the pool for test.com. This will also require the web servers to be configured with a name virtual host (apache terminology) for test.com which uses the same web root as abc.com.

 

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    MSK_222682
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    Feb 04, 2016
    Issue with playing DNS here is we do not own test.com and therefore cannot propagate in our DNS architecture