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Sami_Sheikh_140
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Feb 21, 2014

Hostname redirect to Subdirectory URL

Hi,   I am looking to create an iRule which would redirect users from: Http://example.com or https://example.com to https://example.com/example1/example.htm.   Currenty I have the F5 Virtual ap...
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Well,

the short answer: yes, the F5 can handle it.

the longer answer: Do you want to just redirect any requests from http[s]://example.com/ to https://example.com/example1/example.htm? Or just specific ones?

If you want all requests redirected: Usually you have a virtual-server for http and another one for https.

For the virtual-server for http you could add a new irule containing:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    HTTP::redirect https://[getfield [HTTP::host] ":" 1][HTTP::uri]
}

for the virtual-server for https, you could add something like that:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [HTTP::uri] eq "/" } {
        HTTP::redirect "/example1/example.htm"
    }
}

(Untested, but i guess you get the point)

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Sami_Sheikh_140
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Feb 26, 2014
So I am unsure of what you mean by all requests or specific ones. If I understand what you are trying to say then I would say all requests, basically I could put the forward rule in IIS as well but I don't want to touch the server at all since it is an app server and is very delicate. So basically I have about 6 Virtual servers(3 for HTTP and 3 for HTTPS) for 3 different domains but pointing to the same servers and I would like for instance anybody from outside going to http(s)://example1.com to https://example.com/welcome/welcome.htm and http(s)://example2.com to https://example2.com/welcome/welcome.htm so and so forth. Will those Irule you posted above, can I achieve what I am trying to achieve here? Thanks again Rene