How to send a 301 when the browser hits http://pearsonbuild-staging.apigee.net/performance-insights ? to http://pearsonbuild-staging.apigee.net/performance-insights/ (trailing slash added)

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tl;dr if you hit http://pearsonbuild-staging.apigee.net/performance-insights directly (this is the link on the apigee page), it gets forwarded to nginx as a request to / root. The browser has no way of knowing that /performance-insights is the root, so it tries to load the resources from http://pearsonbuild-staging.apigee.net/. If you use http://pearsonbuild-staging.apigee.net/performance-insights/ (with a trailing slash) the browser uses relative pathing to load the resources as http://pearsonbuild-staging.apigee.net/performance-insights/. Since the nginx only sees a hit to http://pearsonbuild-staging.apigee.net/, it does not do a redirect, like it would if you just typed http://pearsonbuild-staging.apigee.net. So the redirect must happen in Apigee to reset the browser root. ie, user hits http://pearsonbuild-staging.apigee.net/performance-insights, apigee says 301 http://pearsonbuild-staging.apigee.net/performance-insights/ with a trailing slash, browser then loads the correct root path.

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ok, to do that, you could first create a RaiseFault Policy like this,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<RaiseFault async="false" continueOnError="false" enabled="true" name="Raise-Fault">
    <DisplayName>Raise Fault</DisplayName>
    <Properties/>
    <FaultResponse>
        <Set>
            <Headers>
                <Header name="Location">/performance-insights/</Header>
            </Headers>
            <Payload contentType="text/plain"> </Payload>
            <StatusCode>301</StatusCode>
            <ReasonPhrase>Redirect</ReasonPhrase>
        </Set>
    </FaultResponse>
    <IgnoreUnresolvedVariables>true</IgnoreUnresolvedVariables>
</RaiseFault>

Attach it in the preflow request like this,

<PreFlow name="PreFlow">
        <Request>
            <Step>
                <Condition>proxy.pathsuffix = ""</Condition>
                <Name>Raise-Fault</Name>
            </Step>
        </Request>
        <Response/>
    </PreFlow>

So, now when the proxy pathsuffix is empty then we can redirect to performance-insights/

Thanks,

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