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Mayank's avatar
Mayank
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Jul 15, 2019

F5 redirect context path to APACHE Web Server.

Hi there,   I’m assisting one of my customer to integrate our software with F5.   I was told that currently, F5 is configured using the Context Path (/abc) which redirect to my application’s...
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JG's avatar
JG
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Jul 15, 2019

I would fix it on Apache, with something like the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com.au
    DocumentRoot "/xxx/xxx"
 
    ProxyPass /abc/login balancer://abc.com.au_Cluster/login
    ProxyPassReverse /abc/login balancer://172.31.16.26_Cluster/login
 
    <Proxy balancer://abc.com.au_Cluster>
    BalancerMember http://abc.com.au:8080 route=eda9a7ffce499a0ce772f6bef06f84be_Server1
    ProxySet scolonpathdelim=on stickysession=eda9a7ffce499a0ce772f6bef06f84be_Cluster
    </Proxy>
</VirtualHost>

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Mayank's avatar
Mayank
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Jul 15, 2019

Thanks for your reply.

 

Actually, F5 redirects using context path /abc and Web server in internal zone (and doesn't have access to external DNS server) can not resolve to F5 example.com.