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Leslie_South_55
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Oct 17, 2008

Using LB_FAILED and change the URI w/o 302

I am trying to use the 'when LB_FAILED' to send requests a pool just for apologies. The issue is that the requests coming into the VS have crazy long URI strings like '/ABC/def/g/hij/klmno/' and my s...
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hooleylist
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Jul 01, 2011
You can create a /maintenance.html page in the application, add any content the maintenance.html page references under a /maintenance/ directory, add the maintenance server(s) to a pool named pool_apologies_http and then use this iRule: 

   when LB_FAILED {   
      
      log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: Request for [HTTP::uri] from Referer '[HTTP::header Referer]' to pool failed, [LB::server pool]"   
      
       Check if this request was not generated from the maintenance page using the HTTP referer header   
      if {not ([HTTP::path] contains "/maintenance_files/")}{   
      
         log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: Referer wasn't the maintenance page.  Rewriting URI to maintenance page."   
         HTTP::uri "/maintenance.htm"
      }  
      
       Send request to the apologies pool   
      LB::reselect pool pool_apologies_http   
      log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: Reselecting member from the apologies pool"   
   }

Aaron