Altostratus
MVPHello Frédéric, do you need a redirect from first URL to second URL?
Will the two URLs always be the same or is there a whole subfolder content to be redirected?
In first case, in my opinion a LTM policy configured for static redirect will just work fine.
In second case, there's a few ways to do it depending on the requirements.
If there's a big list of URLs to be handled, you might want to work with Data Groups to keep it simple. Configure a string-type DG like this:
ltm data-group internal /Common/datagroup_path_rewrite {
records {
/oldsubfolder1/ { }
/oldsubfolder2/ { }
/oldsubfolder3/ { }
/oldsubfolder4/ { }
/oldsubfolder5/ { }
}
type string
}
Then use it in an iRule for path replacement
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if {[string tolower [HTTP::host]] eq "myorighost:81" } {
HTTP::header replace Host "myrewritedhost"
# this is not a redirect
}
# read as: does the uri contain an element of datagroup_path_rewrite (case sensitive)
if {[class match [HTTP::uri] contains datagroup_path_rewrite]} {
HTTP::path /analytics/Portal/jsp/html/portal/portal.js
# this rewrites the URI path before senting traffic to BE server
}
}
Also, I've recently answered a similar question in this thread, see if this helps as well.
AltostratusHello,
Thanks for your answer.
In fact, I need to replace a reverse proxy with the F5, currently with LTM.
The problem I'm having is the rewriting of the RESPONSE and specifically the Location Header.
For the HTTP request rewriting I was able to rewrite it with "internalhost" and internal uri/path to the back-end webserver.
The problem I'm having in the Response redirects coming from the back-end that I need to rewrite with external host + adapt some path and query params ( within the same redirect location )
How can I do that ?
for exemple :
Http location received from the back-end that need to be rewrited to
http://internalhost/SASPortal/public http://ExternalHost/analytics/Portal/public
http://internalhost/SASPortal/test?myparam=http%3ASASPortal... http://internalhost/SASPortal/test?myparam=http%3%2F%2Fanalytics%2FPortal...
http://internalhost/SASTheme/mytheme http://ExternalHost/Theme_extranal/mytheme
I also need to rewrite the referer with the external uri and some relative path in the location
For the Content rewriting of the response, I 'm using a stream profile and this is ok . But I'm having a lot of problems with the rewriting of the Location header.
many thanks in advance for your future answers.
Regards
Frédéric
Hi Frédéric,
Can you add default stream profile to vs and try this iRule?
when HTTP_REQUEST {
STREAM::disable
if { [HTTP::host] eq "externalhost" } {
HTTP::host "internalhost"
switch -glob [HTTP::uri] {
"/analytics/Portal*" { HTTP::uri [string map {"/analytics/Portal" "/SASPortal"} [HTTP::uri]] }
"/Theme_extranal*" { HTTP::uri [string map {"/Theme_extranal" "/SASTheme"} [HTTP::uri]] }
}
}
}
when HTTP_RESPONSE {
if { [HTTP::header exists "Location"] } {
HTTP::header replace Location [string map [list "internalhost" "externalhost" "/SASPortal" "/analytics/Portal" "/SASTheme" "/Theme_extranal" "/valuefrominternal/" "/valuetoexternal/"] [URI::decode [HTTP::header Location]]]
}
STREAM::expression {@internalhost@externalhost@}
STREAM::enable
}