Trailing slash issue with multiple parameters

Trailing slash issue

[tabish]

Hi All,

I am again stuck with trailing slash issue, this time a little bit complicated.

This is my rewrite:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)$ index.php?country=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)$ index.php?country=$1&state=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)$ index.php?country=$1&state=$2&city=$3
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)/age-([0-9\-]+)$ index.php?country=$1&state=$2&city=$3&age=$4

It works like this.. each time when a user selects country it asks for the state and then city. for example

domainname.com/country

after that

domainname.com/country/state

after that

domainname.com/country/state/city


and so on..

It works fine.. BUT when i add trailing slash, I get page not found error.

For example

domainname.com/country would work perfect

BUT

domainname.com/country/ will give error

also

domainname.com/country/state would work fine

BUT

domainname.com/country/state/

will generate error

Please help me.

Regards
Tabish

[g1smd]

First off, you need to add

[L]

to each rule.

Also

[a-z_]

with

[NC]

flag will parse faster than

[A-Za-z_]

here. However, I would use a hyphen not an underscore in the URL.

To fix the other problem, you simply need a redirect before all of these rewrites such that if URL is requested with trailing slash, user is redirected to URL without trailing slash.

A search for "

site:webmasterworld.com remove trailing slash

" will find prior examples.