Working with redirections

Objective

The OVH Load Balancer acts by default as a proxy. It can also be configured to redirect your customers to a third-party website, which is useful if you are changing your domain name, or want to redirect your customers to your website’s HTTPS version, for example. This is known as HTTP redirection.

This guide will show you how to to integrate your web services behind an OVH Load Balancer with redirections.

Requirements

• an OVH Load Balancer
• access to the OVH Control Panel, or the OVH API

Instructions

Presentation

A HTTP redirection is presented as follows:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.example.org/
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 174

Custom redirections should have the following form: <scheme>://<net_loc>/<path>;<params>?<query>#<fragment>. You can only specify one redirection per front-end.

Custom redirections can be specified via the OVH Control Panel and via the API, both on new and existing front-ends.

Add a custom redirection via the OVH Control Panel.

You can define custom redirections from the OVH Control Panel by going to the Cloud section, then Load Balancer.

You can either do this on a new front-end as you create it, or on an existing front-end.

• Add a new front-end.

In the Front-ends section of the OVH Control Panel, click on Add a front-end to create a new one.

In the editing page for a front-end, select HTTP or HTTPS protocol. Configure the information as requested. However, please note that there is no need to set a Default farm, as it will not be used.

In the advanced settings, enter the HTTP redirection.

• Edit an existing front-end.

In the Front-ends section of the OVH Control Panel, select the front-end you would like to edit. To do this, click the ... button, then select Edit in the menu that appears. Please ensure that the front-end you have chosen uses either HTTP or HTTPS protocol.

In the editing page for the front-end, complete the configuration if needed. However, please note that there is no need to set a Default farm, as it will not be used.

In the advanced settings, enter the HTTP redirection.

Once the front-end has been configured, click Add or Edit, depending on whether you are configuring a new or existing front-end. Please remember to deploy the configuration. There are two ways of doing this:

• via the Status section of the OVH Control Panel, by clicking on your Load Balancer’s ... button, then selecting Apply configuration

• via the reminder box in the OVH Control Panel, notifying you that the configuration has not been applied, by clicking Apply configuration

Add a custom redirection via the API.

In the OVH API, redirections are specified in the redirectLocation character chain.

• If you are creating a new front-end:

• If you are updating an existing front-end:

Then apply the modifications:

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