topic ACE URL Redirection in Application Networking

ACE URL Redirection

Adrian Jones — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:57:33 GMT

Hi,

I have configured some redirection on our Ace Loadbalancers but it does not seem to work. Can anyone look at the key config pasted below and let me know where I am going wrong?

Thanks in Advance

Adrian

ACE URL Redirection

Daniel Arrondo Ostiz — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:08:10 GMT

Hi Adrian,

For a start, the "LB-QW" load-balance policy is not associated to any class in the multi-match policy.

Also, it may be that the "MATCH-QW" class is not properly configured to match on the traffic you are testing. As it is now, it will only redirect those requests with a "Host" header matching "123.abc.site.com"

Daniel

ACE URL Redirection

Adrian Jones — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:18 GMT

Hi Daniel,

So if I change for the following:

policy-map type loadbalance first-match LB-QW
class MATCH-QW
serverfarm REDIRECT-QW

class class-default

sticky-serverfarm STK_WEB443_FRN

policy-map type loadbalance first-match PML_WEB443_FRN
class class-default
sticky-serverfarm STK_WEB443_FRN

policy-map multi-match MMP1911

class VIP_WEB443_FRN

loadbalance vip inservice

loadbalance policy LB-QW

Would this be expected to work, where LB-QW uses the Redirect and STK classes?

The intention is to ensure anyone who uses the 123.abc.site.com is redirected to 123.site.com.

Regards

Adrian

ACE URL Redirection

Daniel Arrondo Ostiz — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:14:05 GMT

Hi Adrian,

This should work, as long as the traffic arriving on the "VIP_WEB443_FRN" class is not encrypted (but seeing it's listening on port 443, I assume it's SSL).

What you need is two different VIPs, one for the SSL traffic, and the other one for the HTTP one (in which you will configure the redirection).

Please, be aware that if you access the "123.abc.site.com" over SSL, the ACE will not be able to do the redirection (because traffic is encrypted) unless you configure the ACE for SSL termination.

Regards

Daniel