Automatically forward users of a loadbalanced StoreFront server to /Citrix/StoreWeb

This question was asked by one of my students during one of my last NetScaler CNS 207 classes. It should not be a difficult problem.

So what do we need to do?

• rewrite requests to /Citrix/StoreWeb.
• filter on requests without URL specified.
• bind it to the load balancing server.

(there is also a 2nd way using a responder policy, but I preferred the rewrite policy)

The rewrite action:

we locate rewrite policies

First we add an action, so click action and then add.

we create a REPLACE action. We replace the URL (HTTP.REQ.URL) by the store address (“/Citrix/StoreWeb”)

Next thing will be the rewrite policy:

We bind our action and filter on requests with an empty URL (HTTP.REQ.URL.EQ(“/”)).

Finished! Just bind this policy to your load balancing server. It will do the trick for you!