CLI configuration: adding persistence for a specific domain

Chapter 12 Load Balancing for FortiOS 5.0 : Load balancing configuration examples : Example: HTTP and HTTPS persistence configuration : CLI configuration: adding persistence for a specific domain

Load balancing is configured from the CLI using the config firewall vip command and by setting type to server-load-balance.

For the CLI configuration, both virtual servers include setting http-cookie-domain to .example.org because HTTP cookie persistence is just required for the example.org domain.

First, the configuration for the HTTP virtual IP:

config firewall vip

edit HTTP_Load_Balance

set type server-load-balance

set server-type http

set extport 8080

set extintf port2

set extip 192.168.20.20

set persistence http-cookie

set http-cookie-domain .example.org

config realservers

edit 1

set ip 10.10.10.1

edit 2

set ip 10.10.10.2

edit 3

set ip 10.10.10.3

end

Second, the configuration for the HTTPS virtual IP. In this configuration you don’t have to set extport to 443 because extport is automatically set to 443 when server-type is set to https.