Edge Security Acceleration:Configure custom rules

Create a custom rule

1. In the ESA console, choose Websites and click the name of the website you want to manage.

2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Traffic > Load Balancing. Click Create to create a load balancer, or click Edit in the Actions column of your load balancer.

   

3. While creating or editing a load balancer, click Create Custom Rule in the Configure Custom Rule tab.

   

4. Enter a Rule Name and select or edit properties in the If requests match... tab.

   Note

   • The expression builder offers a variety of common request attributes. Select the appropriate request matching rules and generate expressions tailored to your needs. For more information, see Work with rules.

   • An accelerated domain name can redirect to different origins based on the URI path.

   • You can select a match type from the match type drop-down list. For more information, see Match fields.

   • You can select an operator from the operator drop-down list. For more information, see Match operators.

   

5. For Then execute..., choose either Respond With Specified Content or Override.

   

   Action	Item	Description
   Respond with Specified Content	Status Code	Optional. Default value: 200.
   	Content-Type Response Header	Optional. Default value: application/octet-stream.
   	Location Response Header	Optional. The HTTP header is not responded to by default. The maximum size is 1024 bytes.
   	Response Body	Optional. This parameter is empty by default, which means that the HTTP body is empty. The maximum size is 1024 bytes.
   Override	Origin Pool	Specifies the origin pool.
   	Fallback Pool	Specifies the fallback pool.
   	Traffic Steering Policy	Specifies the traffic steering policy.
   	Session Persistence	Enable or disable session persistence.
   	Region-level Pool	Region-level origin pool.
   	Subregion-level Pool	Subregion-level origin pool within the corresponding region.
   	Load Balancer TTL	Controls the time-to-live of packets in the network.
   	Terminate	Terminates the matching and running of the custom rule for the load balancer.

6. Click Complete.