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Mar 16, 2017
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iRule breaking iApp Template?

Gents, Armed with this how-to article on DevCentral, I built an iApp template to automate app creation. However, the template only deploys properly when the iRule section is omitted otherwise it wi...
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    atatps_250754
    Mar 24, 2017

    Was able to get help from Support. The solution, contrary to the article, was to remove the backslashes so it should be:

     

        tmsh::create {
    ltm rule IAPPTEST-Homepage-http
    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::path]] starts_with "/homepage"}{
     pool IAPPTEST-ebiz-http member 10.1.10.101
     } else { 
     pool IAPPTEST-ebiz-http  
     } 
     }
    }

     

    As opposed to:

     

        tmsh::create {
    ltm rule IAPPTEST-Homepage-http
        when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { \[string tolower \[HTTP::path\]\] starts_with \"/homepage/\" } {
     pool IAPPTEST-ebiz-http member 10.1.10.101
     } else {
    pool IAPPTEST-ebiz-http
     }
    }
    }

     

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atatps_250754
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Mar 21, 2017

Hi Jason - When replacing the {} with "" I receive this error:

Original syntax:

 

    tmsh::create {
    ltm rule IAPPTEST-Homepage-http
        when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { \[string tolower \[HTTP::path\]\] starts_with \"/homepage/\" } {
     pool IAPPTEST-ebiz-http member 10.1.10.101
     } else {
    pool IAPPTEST-ebiz-http
     }
    }
    }

 

Suggested change:

 

    tmsh::create "
    ltm rule IAPPTEST-Homepage-http
        when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { \[string tolower \[HTTP::path\]\] starts_with \"/homepage/\" } {
     pool IAPPTEST-ebiz-http member 10.1.10.101
     } else {
    pool IAPPTEST-ebiz-http
     }
    }
    "

 

Any other suggestions?