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apache.htaccessurl-rewritingapache2
James Hibbard
James Hibbard

Reputation: 17775

How can I account for a (missing) trailing slash when redirecting root directory to a subdirectory?

On my shared Apache hosting, I'm attempting to seamlessly redirect (without rewriting the URL in the client's browser) all requests to my website to a subdirectory named /blog. I'm doing this with a .htaccess file.

This is what I have so far (from here):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/$1 [L]

This works fine for URLs with a trailing slash.

For example when the user accesses https://example.com/about/, the files from http://example.com/blog/about/ are served, and the URL remains https://example.com/about/.

Problem

When the user accesses https://example.com/about (no trailing slash), the files from https://example.com/blog/about/ are served, but the URL in the browser changes to https://example.com/blog/about/. The URL change is not desired.

Question

How can I alter my .htaccess file to ensure that the URL in the client's browser does not change when the trailing slash is missing?

Additional Info

The only option I have checked in my provider's back-end is "force SSL". There are no other .htaccess files present on the server.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 138

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785581

Trailing slash is being added by Apache's mod_dir module as /blog/about/ is a real directory and trailing slash is added in front of directories to prevent directory listing.

You may use these rules:

DirectorySlash Off
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On

# add a trailing slash if desrtination is a directory
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/blog%{REQUEST_URI} -d
RewriteRule [^/]$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301,NE]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\. [NC]
RewriteRule !^blog/ blog%{REQUEST_URI} [NC,L]

Make sure to test this in a new browser to avoid old cache.

Upvotes: 1

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