need help with http to http url redirect configuration on ACE.

[gadle.ravi]

hi all,

I have a url say http://abc.pqr.com and I wish to send 301 url redirect message to all my clients to come on http://abc.pqr.com/123.

how can i achieve it using webhost-redirection under redirect r server. or do i need to define an action list for this. I have tried using action list command, but somehow it doesn't work. and how different will webhost-redirection cmd here be in comparison to action-list rewrite command.

Also, would be very kind if any one can help me with url proper meaning of url reg-ex like %s, %p , %h as i am not sure about them.

Thanks..

[pablo.nxh]

Hello Ravi,

Action-list is for more specific scenarios when you need to modify something within the HTTP header this is more processing intensive so that's why achieving a 301/302 redirection throught the webhost-relocation method is the way you need to go.

Here is a snippet of how your config should look like to get this working:

rserver redirect SVR

  webhost-redirection http://%h/123

serverfarm host Web

  rserver SRV1

    inservice

  rserver SRV2

    inservice

serverfarm redirect Redirect

  rserver Redirect-SVR

    inservice

class-map type http loadbalance match-any 123

  2 match http url /123.*

policy-map type loadbalance first-match SLB

  class 123

    serverfarm SVR

  class class-default

    serverfarm Redirect

If you have any question let us know.

HTH

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Pablo

[gadle.ravi]

hi Pablo,

thanks for your reply, looking at this config guess I am almost there as the config that i tried working with is almost the same.

but here I have a query and it would be very kind of you if you can answer that for me.

the layer 7 class map you have configured here is

class-map type http loadbalance match-any 123

  2 match http url /123.*

and you are trying to jst match /123 with help of wild card mask .* i.e. only the /123 be matched in whole URL. instead why can't I match abc.pqr.com/123.*

what difference will it make in mentioning whole URL instead of jst the part of it.

and why should i not be having %p as well in webhost-redirection under redirect r server.

[Cesar Roque]

Hi,

The difference is that if you want to match for example the domain abc.pqr.com  and the uri /123 you will need a class-map like this:

class-map type http loadbalance match-ll 123

  2 match http url /123.*

  3 match http header Host header-value abc[.]pqr[.]com

Cesar R

[gadle.ravi]

hello Cesar and Pablo

as per your recomendations, I tweked my configuration further, this is how it looks know

rserver redirect 123-Redirect

   webhost-redirection http://%h/123 301

   inservice

class-map type http loadbalance match-all EmuwebX-Redirect-URLmatch-CMap

match http url /123.* 

  match http header Host header-value abc[.]pqr[.]com 

over here the things look to be working but !  however it seems to be redirecting everything there, clicking through the content seems to always redirect it to the /123 folder.

can you please help me with this.

Thanks..:)