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lori_54451
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May 01, 2007

Using iruel for redirects

I just inherited a web hosting farm that is experencing issues contolling thier targeted urls within thier web application. They have been living with this issue in thier previous hosting site for 2-3...
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Deb_Allen_18
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May 02, 2007
You can edit the config file, in which case you'd need to just follow this format:
class myRedirects  {
   "hydration.company.com http://www2.co.com/hydration.html"
   "nhra.com http://www.us.company.com/nhraHome.do"
   "redirect.co.com http://www.company.com/"
   "thecompany.com http://www.thecompany.com/"
}
Once the conf file is saved, load into memory with a manual config reload ("bigpipe load" at the command line). Once the class is created, indivudual members can be updated on the fly in the GUI.

If you won't need to be updating it on the fly from the GUI, you can create what's called an "external class" which uses a separate text file to store the data. To do so, create a new text file in the /config filesystem (to sync automatically) in the following format:
"hydration.company.com http://www2.co.com/hydration.html",
"home.company.com http://www.us.company.com/Home.do",
"redirect.co.com http://www.company.com/",
"thecompany.com http://www.thecompany.com/",
and create a class of type "External" referencing this file. Note the trailing comma on each line, including the last. Changes to the file require a manual config reload before they take effect ("bigpipe load" at the command line).