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I have the following url www.example.com/advice/ now notice the trailing slash at the end of the url? I would like that to be removed to be something like www.example.com/advice. Now when I enter that URL in the browser I get redirected to the with trailing slash, even with curl for example. Now I know the trailing slash is getting added because advice is an actual directory.

[steve@dev dev.www.example.com]$ curl -I  https://dev.www.example.com/advice -k
  HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
  Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:20:11 GMT
  Server: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS)
  Location: https://dev.www.example.com/advice/
  Cache-Control: max-age=0
  Expires: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:20:11 GMT
  Connection: close
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

[steve@dev dev.www.example.com]$ curl -I https://dev.www.example.com/advice/ -k
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:21:19 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.27
Set-Cookie: flarum_session=mfbou2hcbvcobhncnaqlvl9bm7; Path=/; HttpOnly
X-CSRF-Token: WV69M1oi8POqOcXi6MvwKhbJQ72Tmo2WpFn3oxwq
Content-Length: 10339
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Expires: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:21:19 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *.example.com
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

What I tried so far

Inside of the .htacess I tried:

DirectorySlash Off

Which resulted into a 403 without the slash

[steve@dev dev.www.example.com]$ curl -I https://dev.www.example.com/advice -k
  HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
  Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:53:15 GMT
  Server: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS)
  Connection: close
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

I also added the following rewrite rule but nothing changed

RewriteRule ^.*(advice)\/$ $1 [L,R=301]

More information

Now advice is where I have a forum platform installed, in the same directory I have a CMS installed, something like below

├── advice
│   ├── admin.php
│   ├── api.php
│   ├── assets
│   ├── composer.json
│   ├── composer.lock
│   ├── config.php
│   ├── CONTRIBUTING.md
│   ├── index.php <-- Forum entry point
│   ├── LICENSE
│   ├── Procfile
│   ├── readme.md
│   ├── scripts
│   ├── storage
│   ├── Vagrantfile
│   └── vendor
├── assets
├── cms
├── codeception.yml
├── commands
├── composer.json
├── composer.lock
├── crontask
├── dropzone
├── email-helpers
├── favicon.ico
├── framework
├── gridfield-bulk-editing-tools
├── gridfieldextensions
├── index.php <-- CMS Entry point
├── kickassets
├── liveseo
├── minify
├── README.md
├── reports
├── setup.php
├── shortcodable
├── silverstripe-cache
├── siteconfig
├── _ss_environment.php
├── tests
├── themes
├── trait-loader
├── vendor
└── web.config

Apache version Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS)

You can find the advice .htaccess here and the one in the cms here

If it helps the CMS is silverstripe and forum is flarum

So I am not sure how this kind of set up it called so it is hard for me to google it and see if I am going in the right direction.

What I have currently

I have a CMS that has a vhost for www.example.com, the admin interface for this is under a sub domain admin.www.example.com.

What I need

Now apart from that CMS I need to have a forum platform up and running. This is how would like it to be set up

• www.example.com -> CMS
• www.example.com/advice -> forum

Is a set up like this possible with apache?

Details

I am running on centos7 with apache 2.4.6.

My current vhost is like the following

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName example.com
   DocumentRoot /www/example.com
   SetEnv ADMIN_DOMAIM 0
   <Directory "/www/example.com>
              AllowOverride All
              Options FollowSymLinks
   </Directory>
   php_value mbstring.func_overload 0
   DirectoryIndex index.php
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName admin.example.com
   DocumentRoot /www/example.com
   SetEnv ADMIN_DOMAIN 1
   <Directory /www/example.com>
              AllowOverride All
              Options FollowSymLinks
   </Directory>
   php_value mbstring.func_overload 0
   DirectoryIndex index.php
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
        SSLEngine on
        SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
        SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key
        SetEnv ADMIN_DOMAIN 0
        ServerName example.com
        DocumentRoot /www/example.com
        <Directory /www/example.com>
              AllowOverride All
              Options FollowSymLinks
        </Directory>
        php_value mbstring.func_overload 0
        DirectoryIndex index.php
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
        SSLEngine on
        SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
        SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key
        SetEnv ADMIN_DOMAIN 1
        ServerName admin.example.com
        DocumentRoot /www/example.com
        <Directory /www/example.com>
              AllowOverride All
              Options FollowSymLinks
        </Directory>
        php_value mbstring.func_overload 0
        DirectoryIndex index.php
</VirtualHost>