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I just want that trailing comma from a url is replaced with a trailing slash and here's what I've written
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.)+,$
RewriteRule (.+) http://www.example.com/$1/ [R=301,L]
But it's not working.
Help jdMorgan.
What is the test URL? What do you get back from the website?
If I ask for
example.com/folder[b]/,[/b]www.example.com/folder[b]/,/[/b]You might want to clarify your requirements.
my wrong url is www.example.com/section1, ending with a comma and which I want to make www.example.com/section1/
Thanks.
The key is to not include the trailing comma in the parenthesized pattern match to be back-referenced by $1 :
RewriteRule ^(.+),$ http://www.example.com/$1/ [R=301,L]
Do you want to fix just a single trailing comma, or will you ever have other characters (that you also need to dump) appended directly after the comma?
your solution worked like a charm.
Actually one of my website started getting lots of 404 hits and the incorrect urls have trailing commas (the one I posted), rest of the url is just fine. I've not been able to locate from where this comma is coming yet but meanwhile I thought to remove the error log at least by adding this rule.
Thanks for your help!
@g1smd, yep, this comma was the only issue at the moment but you may please suggest a better rule if you have any ideas. Thanks mate.
My sites usually fix trailing commas, colons, semi-colons, periods, parentheses, and other such punctuation.
# Externally redirect to remove all invalid trailing characters (often
# the result of punctuation following links posted in forums & blogs)
RewriteRule ^(.+)[^0-9a-z/]$ http://www.example.com/$1/ [NC,R=301,L]
