| title | description | services | author | ms.service | ms.topic | ms.date | ms.author |
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Redirect overview for Azure Application Gateway |
Learn about the redirect capability in Azure Application Gateway to redirect traffic received on one listener to another listener or to an external site. |
application-gateway |
amsriva |
application-gateway |
conceptual |
11/16/2019 |
amsriva |
You can use application gateway to redirect traffic. It has a generic redirection mechanism which allows for redirecting traffic received at one listener to another listener or to an external site. This simplifies application configuration, optimizes the resource usage, and supports new redirection scenarios including global and path-based redirection.
A common redirection scenario for many web applications is to support automatic HTTP to HTTPS redirection to ensure all communication between application and its users occurs over an encrypted path. In the past, customers have used techniques such as creating a dedicated backend pool whose sole purpose is to redirect requests it receives on HTTP to HTTPS. With redirection support in Application Gateway, you can accomplish this simply by adding a new redirect configuration to a routing rule, and specifying another listener with HTTPS protocol as the target listener.
The following types of redirection are supported:
- 301 Permanent Redirect
- 302 Found
- 303 See Other
- 307 Temporary Redirect
Application Gateway redirection support offers the following capabilities:
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Global redirection
Redirects from one listener to another listener on the gateway. This enables HTTP to HTTPS redirection on a site.
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Path-based redirection
This type of redirection enables HTTP to HTTPS redirection only on a specific site area, for example a shopping cart area denoted by /cart/*.
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Redirect to external site
With this change, customers need to create a new redirect configuration object, which specifies the target listener or external site to which redirection is desired. The configuration element also supports options to enable appending the URI path and query string to the redirected URL. You can also choose the type of redirection. Once created, this redirect configuration is attached to the source listener via a new rule. When using a basic rule, the redirect configuration is associated with a source listener and is a global redirect. When a path-based rule is used, the redirect configuration is defined on the URL path map. So it only applies to the specific path area of a site.