domain redirect

Please explain more...

I want to rewrite a URL. No Redirect.

Thera are a list of url's that should rewrite to a single URL.

List:

Rewrite to: https://www.mainpage.de

Which version you're running on. If running on 11.5.x or above, use the rewrite profile:

• clientside : https://www.blah-test.com/
• serverside : https://www.mainpage.de/

else,

when HTTP_REQUEST { 
if { ([HTTP::host] equals "www.blah-test.com") } { 
HTTP::host [string map {www.blah-test.com www.mainpage.de} [HTTP:host]]
} 
} 
when HTTP_RESPONSE {
if { [HTTP::header values Location] contains "www.mainpage.de" } {
HTTP::header replace Location [string map {www.mainpage.de www.blah-test.com} [HTTP::header value Location]]
}
}

Hi Gents,

I have put this to the VS at clientside.

Code when HTTP_REQUEST { set host [string tolower [HTTP::host]] switch $host { "; - "; - "; { HTTP::redirect "; } } }

But I don't know where to put the following response on serverside.

when HTTP_RESPONSE { if { [HTTP::header values Location] contains "; } { HTTP::header replace Location [string map { } [HTTP::header value Location]] } }

Can you tell me where to put the serverside irule?

Thanks DPIT

Hi DPIT,

I want to rewrite a URL. No Redirect.

Having multiple external site names pointing to the same web content will hurt your SEO rating and will make your life little more complicated in 99 out of 100 cases.

Redirecting your redundant external site names (via HTTP-Status 301 or 307) to a single and common location from where the content is finaly delivered in a unified way will on the other hand boost your SEO ratings. Beside of this, redirecting is a less complicated approach compared to rewriting every single HTTP request and/or HTTP response.

Cheers, Kai

Instead of using an iRule this can also be achieved by a ltm policy, which you assign to the virtual. Ltm policies are more visually then iRules. Look at: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/ltm-policy for more details about ltm policies

See below for an example:

ltm policy redirect_policy {
    controls { request-adaptation }
    requires { http }
    rules {
        redirect_to_mainpage.de {
            actions {
                0 {
                    http-host
                    replace
                    value www.mainpage.de
                }
            }
            conditions {
                0 {
                    http-host
                    values { www.blah-test.com www.blahtest.com www.blahtest.de }
                }
            }
            ordinal 1
        }
    }
    strategy first-match
}

ltm virtual test {
    destination 1.2.3.4:https
    ip-protocol tcp
    mask 255.255.255.255
    policies {
        redirect_policy { }
    }
    profiles {
        clientssl {
            context clientside
        }
        http { }
        requestadapt {
            context clientside
        }
        tcp { }
    }
}