iRule redirection to different port

Creating a new pool and redirecting traffic based on your uri should work seamlessly.

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [string tolower[HTTP::host] eq "abc.com"] && [string tolower[HTTP::uri] starts_with "xyz" ] } {

 

pool pool_7143

 

}

 

else {

 

pool default_pool

 

}

 

}

 

Hi,

 

You dont need to create a separate pool for it. You can just create a node for the same

 

when HTTP_REQUEST { if {[string tolower[HTTP::host] eq "abc.com"] && [string tolower[HTTP::uri] starts_with "xyz" ] } { node 10.100.10.1 7143 } else { pool default_pool } }

 

Try adding a logging to see how the F5 is interpreting the request:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  log local0. "URI:[HTTP::uri]"
  if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/xyz" } {
    node 10.202.100.1 7143
  } else {
    pool Default_pool
  }
}

The iRule should be working as written. You could use tcpdump to confirm if traffic is getting sent to the node specified in the iRule.

 

tcpdump -nni 0.0 host 10.202.100.1

 

You'll need to modify the log to output the URI that is captured in the else condition. Once a match is made in an 'if' statement it breaks out and stops processing further conditions so the 'else' should not be matched if it was previously matched in the preceding 'if'

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/xyz" } {
    log local0. "If condition matched with URI:[HTTP::uri]"
    Pool abc_pool
  } else {
    log local0. "else condition matched with URI:[HTTP::uri]"
    pool Default_pool
  }