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fillstrsoh_2962
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Oct 26, 2011

SharePoint 2010 - virtual with two pools

We are trying to implement SharePoint 2010 using one virtual server with two pools using a pool for each site. dv-strsohioportal is the virtual server which has an irule that sends traffic to a specific pool based on the URI being either dv-strsohioportal/sites/inv or dv-strsohioportal/sites/its. The irule works but it appears that the AAM is not configured correctly because SharePoint returns a 404 error once it translates the URI to dv-strsohioportal/sites/inv/default.aspx or dv-strsohioportal/sites/its/default.aspx.

 

 

irule:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

log local0. "URI - [HTTP::uri]"

 

if { [HTTP::host] contains "dv-strsohioportal" } {

 

log local0. "URI - [HTTP::uri]"

 

switch -regexp [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] {

 

"/sites/its.*" {

 

log local0. "This time pool - ITS"

 

pool dv-strsohioportal_its_pool }

 

"/sites/inv.*" {

 

log local0. "This time pool - INV"

 

pool dv-strsohioportal_inv_pool }

 

}

 

}

 

 

}

 

 

If they add dv-strsohioportal to the AAM configuration it redirects to 10.100.x.x/sites/inv/default.aspx or 10.100.x.x/sites/its/default.aspx. Should we abandon using AAM and try to use the IIS rewrite rules instead?

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Mark

 

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  • fillstrsoh_2962's avatar
    fillstrsoh_2962
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    Nov 01, 2011
    Kurt,

     

     

    Using the BigIP allowed us to use a common TLD dv-strsohioportal for multiple sites hosted on different SharePoint servers. The irule was needed to define the pool based on the URI and also modify the full URL to contain a hostname that the SharePoint servers had defined such as paris-test or dublin-test1 within the AAM. The links that I mentioned above like /sites/inv do work within SharePoint but are handled by performing a redirect. Taking the BigIP out of the mix, if I requested http://paris-test/sites/inv SharePoint still performs a redirect causing the request to become http://paris-test/sites/inv/default.aspx. Unfortunately I can no longer continue testing as my SharePoint admin has abandoned the concept of using the BigIP based on the recommendation of Microsoft.

     

     

    Thanks for your help.

     

     

    Mark
  • Kurt_Knochner_5's avatar
    Kurt_Knochner_5
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    Nov 02, 2011
    The links that I mentioned above like /sites/inv do work within SharePoint but are handled by performing a redirect. Taking the BigIP out of the mix, if I requested http://paris-test/sites/inv SharePoint still performs a redirect causing the request to become http://paris-test/sites/inv/default.aspx.

     

     

    O.K. there is nothing in the iRule that would redirect /sites/inv to /sites/inv/default.aspx, except sharepoint itself (or your STREAM profile - please check that!).

     

     

    Unfortunately I can no longer continue testing as my SharePoint admin has abandoned the concept of using the BigIP based on the recommendation of Microsoft.

     

     

    I'm sorry to say, but Sharepoint is a big mess, not just in terms of load balancing ;-))

     

     

    Regards

     

    Kurt Knochner