topic Re: CSS Redirect in Application Networking

CSS Redirect

shday — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:25:20 GMT

I have a server that has multiple web instances and each web instance is using a different domain. For example,

www.spoton.com

www.catchtheride.com

www.skipper.com

I have about 23 different domains that I need to make sure are redirected if the initial request is http. Is there a way to create a redirect service that would redirect the host and the path without creating a redirect service for each domain. I know in the ACE you can us the https://%h%p, but I can't seem to get this same config into the CSS.

Re: CSS Redirect

stmccabe — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:12:46 GMT

Hi,

Yes you can do want you are looking to acheive on the CSS. What you will need to do is the following:

1) create a redirect service, regular service and two content rules (redirect rule and ssl rule) for each domain you want to catch:

service redirect1 
  type redirect 
  protocol tcp 
  port 80 
  keepalive type none 
  domain "https://domain1.test.net" 
  active 
service siteyouwanttoredirectallto443
  ip address 4.4.4.4
  protocol tcp
  port 80
  active

content domain1.test.net-redir 
    vip address 10.1.1.100 
    protocol tcp 
    port 80 
    url "//domain1.test.net/*" 
    add service redirect1 
    active

content domain1.test.net-SSL 
    vip address 10.1.1.100 
    protocol tcp 
    port 443
    add service siteyouwanttoredirectallto443
    active

Re: CSS Redirect

shday — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:23:45 GMT

So I have to build a serperate redirect service and content rule for each domain I need to redirect? There is no way to tell the CSS to just reidrect whatever domain and path is in the request. I want to build one redirect service based on host and path. One content rule for port 80 pointing to the redirect service. This redirect is only to force all request to 443 instead of 80 for whatever the user puts in for the url.

Is this possible.

service redirect1 
  type redirect 
  protocol tcp 
  port 80 
  keepalive type none 
  domain "https://%h/%p
  active 

content domain1.test.net-redir 
    vip address 10.1.1.100 
    protocol tcp 
    port 80 
    url "/*" 
    add service redirect1 
    active