On the ACE how do I change http://abc.apps to go to http://abc.apps/abc

Richard Bradfield · ‎02-11-2010

I am load balancing the servers ok , at the moment in test environmnet

so client types in http://abc.apps/def and that goes to the real servers eg http://realserver/def

what our customer would like is just to go to http://abc.apps to go to the same location http://realserver/def

how do I do this in the ACE configuration

Gilles Dufour · ‎02-12-2010

The only way is to catch the request with a L7 class-map for url "/" and use a redirect rserver to send a redirect to the desire url.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA3_1_0/command/reference/realserv.html#wp1019728

Gilles.

venkatkr · ‎02-15-2010

You need to be careful that you dont get into a loop.

when the client enter http://abc.apps then it would resolve to an ip. Lets say 2.2.2.2 is the VIP.

ACE gets a match, then you need to perform layer 7 load balancing. If there is no abc, then do a redirect

Created redirect rserver

rserver redirect abc_redirect
webhost-redirection http://abc.apps/abc

server for redirect rserver

serverfarm redirect URL_REDIRECT
call the rserver

layer 7 match

class-map type http loadbalance match-any matchurl_abc
2 match http url /abc

Policy map should look something like this
policy-map type loadbalance http first-match ABC
           class matchurl_abc
             serverfarm x
           class class-default
            serverfarm URL_REDIRECT

Hope this helps

Regards

Venky