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user367217
user367217

Reputation: 499

mod_rewrite: remove trailing slash (only one!)

I use mod_rewrite/.htaccess for pretty URLs.

I'm using this condition/rule to eliminate trailing slashes (or rather: rewrite to the non-trailing-slash-URL, by a 301 redirect; I'm doing this to avoid duplicate content and because I like URLs with no trailing slashes better): 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^\.localhost$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Working well so far. Only drawback:
it also forwards "multiple-trailing-slash"-URLs to non-trailing-slash-URLs.

Example:
http://example.tld/foo/bar////// forwards to http://example.tld/foo/bar
while I only want http://example.tld/foo/bar/ to forward to http://example.tld/foo/bar.

So, is it possible to only eliminate trailing slashes if it's actually just one trailing slash?

Sorry if this is a somewhat annoying or weird question!

Thanks.

Upvotes: 26

Views: 45986

Answers (5)

José Veríssimo
José Veríssimo

Reputation: 242

If you only want to remove the trailing slashes from GET requests, use the below:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} =GET
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

Upvotes: 0

Amit Verma
Amit Verma

Reputation: 41219

Here is a mod-alias based solution to remove trailing slash from urls :

RedirectMatch ^/(.*?)/$ /$1

You can use the above Redirect in your htaccess or server.config file.

This will redirect /uri/ to */uri** .

Upvotes: 6

aleemb
aleemb

Reputation: 32065

the following rule will match any URL ending in a slash and remove all slashes from the end of it:

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

Note: The currently accepted answer only works for http not https but this one works for both.

Upvotes: 26

Jon
Jon

Reputation: 16728

change the rewrite rule to:

RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

in English: match the start of the string, one or more anything, NOT a slash, a slash, the end.

Upvotes: 14

Sjoerd
Sjoerd

Reputation: 75578

^(.+[^/])/$

I.e. the forelast character must not be a slash.

Upvotes: 4

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