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Gregt_33960
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusWhen Website is unavailable
Hello,
I had, what I hope is a simple question. Is there a way to have the F5 point to a "under construction" or "website is down" html page? I have several pools and subsequent websites behind my F5, and I have the F5 performing health checks on said pools and websites. However, when there is an outage or the website is unavailable can I have the F5 redirect to an outage page when the user community attempts to connect to the desired website? if it is possible is this something that is within the system or IRULES?
I will apologize if the wrong forum.
thanks
greg
- JRahm
Admin
You can set the fallback host in the http profile, which will redirect traffic to the destination you configure. If you want more granular control, you can set this in an iRule:when LB_FAILED { HTTP::fallback "http://siteunavailable.mysite.com/" }
If you don't have another server to redirect to, you can always serve the page from the LTM itself. Here are two examples from the codeshare
Text-only: http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/LTMMaintenancePageLite.html Click here
Text with Images: http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/LTMMaintenancePage.html Click here
