URL-uri rewrite problem using Default

A few comments.

1. Checking for "/*" is effectively a default state as everything else will match. You can therefore remove the -glob option and use straight string compares (faster). You can also remove the comparison for "/" as that is the same redirect as the default case.

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  switch [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] {
    "/specific/" {
      pool Specific_Pool_80
    }
    default {
      HTTP::redirect http://[HTTP::host]/specific/ 
    }
  }
}

I do have question about your default case though. You will be redirecting all URL's that do not equal "/specific/" to "/specific/" (I'm assuming the specifc was a typo...).

How could this possibly work for any content on your site? All URLs will redirect to the same place.

http://www.foo.com/index.html -> http://www.foo.com/specific/

http://www.foo.com/images/file.gif -> http://www.foo.com/specific/

http://www.foo.com/dir1/dir2/file.ext -> http://www.foo.com/specific/

It's pretty obvious why all the images are disappearing as they are getting redirected to the /specific/" URI. Most likely you will want to append the existing URI (or provide some other mapping to carry over the original request URI to the /specific/ directory. Also, you'll likely want the first check to check for a "starts_with" instead of an "equals", so we'll bring back the glob...

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  switch -glob [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] {
    "/specific/*" {
      pool Specific_Pool_80
    }
    default {
      HTTP::redirect http://[HTTP::host]/specific[HTTP::uri]
    }
  }
}

This would yield the following mappings

http://www.foo.com/index.html -> http://www.foo.com/specific/index.html

http://www.foo.com/images/file.gif -> http://www.foo.com/specific/images/file.gif

http://www.foo.com/dir1/dir2/file.ext -> http://www.foo.com/specific/dir1/dir2/file.ext

Another tip, throwing in some log statements will always help figure out what's going on.

-Joe