Redirect URL?

[jwalzer]

How do I go about redirecting a URL? Instead of having a user type out the full address, i.e., http://webtime/abc/logon, I want them to type http://webtime and have to go straight to the full page.

Thanks,

Jeff

[MARK BAKER]

You can set up a redirect to do this, but couldn't you also setup the web server to use /abc/logon as the default page?

The reason I ask is that if you use a redirect on the CSM, it would be one more round-trip for the user request to reach the server.

client - csm - client - csm - server

setting it up on the server would be as below.

client - csm - server

I am assuming you are using the CSM, but it would work the same with any load-balancer.

Here is a link to the CSM configuration for http redirects.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_installation_and_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00802003a8.html#wp1009716

Hope this helps,

Mark

[jwalzer]

Mark,

Thanks for the reply. We are using a CSS - would the same reasoning apply re: user request of:

clinet - css - client - css - server

Thanks,

Jeff

[Gilles Dufour]

Jeff,

the same behavior will occur with the CSS or any other loadbalancer.

The loadbalancer/CSS will send a redirect to the client forcing it to close its tcp connection to reopen a new one to get the correct url.

It takes therefore a little longer to open the first page due to this redirect.

This is why it is better to solve this problem by reconfiguring the webserver to use the logon page as the default page.

Regards,

Gilles.