| redirecting with double forward slash in URL
mod rewrite |
subhendu
msg:4538264 | 8:48 am on Jan 22, 2013 (gmt 0) |
I got an alarming number of pages not found at my site because of presence of two forward slashes in the URL. I am unable to located the exact source of the link.
Here is the example.
http://www.example.com/dir_name//page1.php
This should be redirected as
http://www.example.com/dir_name/page1.php
I have one .htaccess file at root of my site which redirects example.com to www.example.com. ( this is working )
I have added these few lines to it ( learnt from here one old post ) but it is not working, cleared my cache also and tried.
Please help me , what is wrong here.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
# Externally redirect to remove multiple contiguous slashes embedded in URL
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([^/]+)//+(.*)$
RewriteRule // http://www.example.com/%1/%2 [R=301,L]
I am keeping this file at root of the site. Should I keep each one at every dir ?
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g1smd
msg:4538288 | 10:17 am on Jan 22, 2013 (gmt 0) |
The "remove slashes" rule MUST be listed before the non-www/www rule, otherwise non-www requests with double slash will go through two redirects before arriving at the correct URL.
More general purpose:
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)/+(.*) http://www.example.com/$1$3 [R=301,L]
This catches double slash anywhere in the path part of the URL request.
My preferred method is to add:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !//
to the non-www/www rule and then add this separate rule near the start of the htaccess file:
RewriteRule // /fix-slashes.php [L]
The PHP script detects the requested URL and then does a simple PREG_REPLACE on it and sends the correct 301 HEADER back out.
Change your non-www/www rule to this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.example\.com)?$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
as it catches more non-canonical URLs than your existing rule.
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lucy24
msg:4538290 | 10:26 am on Jan 22, 2013 (gmt 0) |
More general purpose:
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)/+(.*) http://www.example.com/$1$3 [R=301,L]
What do you do if $3 is "index.html" or equivalent? Normally the index-redirect would be your second-to-last rule, but here you've got to intercept it or you're right back in double-redirect territory.
:: unhappily looking at timestamp and realizing that I probably didn't even need to look at adjoining post that I just finished answering ::
If I were writing the rule I'd say
((?:[^/]+/)*)/+(.*)
leading to
$1$2
but that may have more to do with individual coding preferences.
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subhendu
msg:4538705 | 5:36 pm on Jan 23, 2013 (gmt 0) |
Sorry, Dont know why nothing is working for me, tried all codes from here and other places.
Just replaced my domain name with example.com here
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
#
#
# Externally redirect to remove multiple contiguous slashes at beginning or end of URL
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^//+(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*/)/+$
RewriteRule / http://www.example.com/%1 [R=301,L]
#
# Externally redirect to remove multiple contiguous slashes embedded in URL
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([^/]+)//+(.*)$
RewriteRule // http://www.example.com/%1/%2 [R=301,L]
#
# Externally redirect non-canonical domain requests to canonical domain.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I must be doing very stupid mistake but not able to located it. Please help.
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lucy24
msg:4538797 | 12:35 am on Jan 24, 2013 (gmt 0) |
You need to get the double slashes into the body of the Rule so your server doesn't get dragged down checking every single request. That's why you use
RewriteRule ^((?:[^/]+/)*)/+(.*) http://www.example.com/$1$2 [R=301,L]
immediately preceded by
RewriteRule ^((?:[^/.]+/)*)/+((?:[^/.]+/)*)index\.html http://www.example.com/$1$2 [R=301,L]
As always, DO NOT cut & paste. I'm typing this off the top of my head.
Matter of fact, you can probably constrain the second rule (the one I wrote first) to
^((?:[^/.]+/)*)/+((?:[^/.]+/)*[^/.]+\.html)$
(note closing anchor) replacing .html with whatever page extension(s) you really use. Calls to stylesheets, images etc come from within the page, so there's no place for the double-slashes to come from. I assume you don't want to redirect hotlinkers ;)
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