Fortinet 263 FortiWeb 5.0 Patch 6 Administration Guide
HTTP header-based routes (called “HTTP content routing policies” in the web UI) each define a
set of requests that will be routed to a specific back-end web server in your server farm, based
upon the URL and/or Host: field in the HTTP header. Configure one HTTP content routing
policy per web server.
If you have configured request rewriting, configure HTTP content-based routing using the
original request URL and/or Host: name, as it appears before FortiWeb has rewritten it. For
more information on rewriting, see “Grouping rewriting & redirection rules” on page 385.
To configure an HTTP header-based routing policy
1. Go to Server Objects > Server > HTTP Content Routing Policy.
To access this part of the web UI, your administrator’s account access profile must have
Read and Write permission to items in the Server Policy Configuration category. For details,
see “Permissions” on page 47.
2. Click Create New.
A dialog appears.
3. In Name, type a unique name that can be referenced in other parts of the configuration. Do
not use spaces or special characters. The maximum length is 35 characters.
4. Click OK.
5. Click Create New.
6. Configure these settings:
Setting
name
Description
Host Status Enable if you want the rule to apply only to HTTP requests for a specific web
host. Also configure Host.
Host Select the name of a protected host that the Host: field of an HTTP request
must be in to match the rule.
This option is available only if Host Status is enabled.