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jacktrades
Asked: 2012-07-11 09:57:37 +0800 CST

Apache rewrite - Redirects to example.com// instead of example.com [duplicate]

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When trying to redirect an URL in apache from:

www.example.com

to 

example.com

it redirects to 

example.com//

This is a one page webserver, Fixed IP goes directly to the page.

Editing directly on httpd.conf

Any idea of why is this happening?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  ^www.example.com [nocase]
RewriteRule ^(.*)         http://example.com/$1 [last,redirect=301]
apache-2.2 redirect mod-rewrite 301-redirect

3 Answers

  1. Where is that rule configured?

    Seems like it's probably in the server or virtualhost configuration, where it would have a leading slash in the match string, which is being captured and replaced into the redirect string.

    Try this:

    RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://example.com/$1 [last,redirect=301]

    It doesn't seem like you need to be using mod_rewrite for this, if that's all the complexity you need. If your rules don't need to be any more complex than this, use Redirect instead:

    Redirect 301 / http://example.com/
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  2. How about change the line RewriteRule to:

    RewriteRule ^/(.*)         http://example.com/$1 [last,redirect=301]
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  3. Best Answer

    Is this in a .htaccess file or a <Directory /> block? My guess is that it is not.

    Inside those two areas, the URI path is matched to a full filesystem path and the the part that matches the directory, including the slash, is removed.

    Outside one of these areas, the URI path starts with a slash. Hence, your redirect puts an extra slash in.

    You can change the rewrite rule to either:

    RewriteRule ^/(.*)         http://example.com/$1 [last,redirect=301]

    Or

    RewriteRule ^(.*)         http://example.com$1 [last,redirect=301]
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