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jai_sae_366153
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Jan 09, 2019

reverse proxy to external url

Hi, i got app server that need to call url for sms. currently we are using apache proxy to do reverse proxy, but now im planning to f5 to take over the reverse proxy.

 

so basically i will have my app server call to vs on my f5 and vs will pass it to full url, refer example below

 

vs = 10.10.10.100 port = 90 perfomance layer -------- https://global.ezy-secure.com:59482/SendTAC

 

how can i achieve this thing, anybody can help?

 

thanks

 

application delivery
BIG-IP
LTM

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  • KevinA_246454's avatar
    KevinA_246454
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    Jan 09, 2019

    do you want the f5 to do a http redirect ? or do you want the f5 to act as reverse proxy for the url ?...maybe make a pool member for the host global.ezy.-secure.com on port 59842 attach the pool member to the virtual server and then right an irule to append the url.

     

  • jai_sae_366153's avatar
    jai_sae_366153
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    Jan 09, 2019

    Hi KevinA,

     

    i need f5 to act as reverse proxy for the url, i can understand until the pool part. For the irule im dont know how to write it.

     

  • Rico's avatar
    Rico
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    Jan 22, 2019

    No iRule required. If you set up a virtual server on your internal interface and connect it to a pool with the pool member configured as FQDN, you can enter your url and any request will automatically be sent out to that specific url. It will even persist the uri of the original request. So you should just be able to make a virtual server attached to a pool with an FQDN pool member attached to the domain name of wherever you would like it to go.