NimbostratusHi Community,
I would greatly appreciate a little help with this challenge:
External clients will hit the LTM with a own http host "connect.test.company.org/URI" and we do need to modify this requests that the webserver understands it: "abctest.company.org/connect/URI
As I am not very familiar with developing, I wanted to ask if anyone can check this iRule or give me a better idea 🙂
Thanks, Manuel
Nimbostratus
CirrusHi Manuel, HTTP::redirect tell user's browser to go to a different location, that is different from what you need.
I suggest you to use rewrite profile, so you don't need to create an irule. Find below a good explanation and example: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-11-5-0/23.html
CirrusIf you use HTTPS, yes it's required because F5 needs to "read" the http traffic.
NimbostratusOk, got it.
Is there any way I can solve this without terminating SSL? I guess we would consider using an iRule in this case, right?
CirrusI don't think you can do what you need without SSL termination, because you have to change the URI sent to the backend servers.
NimbostratusOne last question: if I use a rewrite profile, will it keep the paths or queries behind the host that I am redirecting? E.g. user accesses "connect.test.company.org/test/site/query" will it be translated to "abctest.company.org/connect/test/site/query"?
NimbostratusOk, I understand that part.
If the user will come up with different http paths or queries, is there anyway to maintain this values. Unfortunately we cannot define all paths a user potentially could go, so we need a wildcard (as we would use the [HTTP::uri] or [HTTP::path] in an iRule.
Cirrusyou can also rewrite only the host, if makes sense: http://connect.test.company.org/ ---> http://abctest.company.org/
NimbostratusAlright, thank you. I will try if a combination of rewriting the host and uri, but keeping the rest of the http path is possible. Else wise I will use iRule. Thanks for your support!
Nimbostratustiziano, Where is that GUI Application from for Portal Re Write, I have not seen this before?