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Asked: 2011-09-14 14:16:55 +0800 CST

Rewrite changing URL if last slash is omitted

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I have rewrite rule that works okay, but ends up changing the visible URL if a trailing slash is omitted when going to an index.php:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI} !main
RewriteRule /.* /~user/main$0

When someone visits

http://user.dev.example.com/utilities/pib/

The page works fine. However, if they visit

http://user.dev.example.com/utilities/pib

They are redirected to 

http://user.dev.example.com/~user/main/utilities/pib/

This still works fine, but I'd rather have the URL not change. The server has other configuration that allows for ~user in the URL to take you to public_html on the disc (where these files are located). So the actual URL should be:

http://dev.example.com/~user/main/utilities/pib/

But it still leaves my name in the domain. I'm not sure if I am even able to solve this problem, but I'm also not sure what other configuration could cause it.

apache-2.2 rewrite mod-rewrite

2 Answers

  1. You can always use mod_rewrite to append a trailing slash

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

    Add it above your first rule

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  2. The above rules is not the cause of it. Check all the included configuration files in conf.d (or similar). If you set AllowOverride All, find all the .htaccess files with:

    find /path/to/document/root -name .htaccess

    and take a look at that.

    I also suggest you turning on the mod_rewrite log:

    RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 9

    to see how the URI is parsed.

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