site.com to site.com/

non-slash to slash

[monia]

Hi folks. I've got a problem. Need your help a lot !

I just wanna 301-redirect root directory site.com to site.com/. After redirection it should have folloving server headers:

site.com - 301 redirected to site.com/
site.com/ - 200

To make this happened I used folloving .htacces code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://site.com/$1 [L,R=301]

and get folloving server headers:

site.com - 301 redirected to site.com/
site.com/ - 301 redirected to site.com/

and infinite loops redirection.

What I did wrong ? why my site.com/ redirects to itself ? How can I make redirection with desired server headers ?

[jdMorgan]

The slash is not part of the hostname (HTTP_HOST), it is part of the URL-path (REQUEST_URI). Therefore, your rule will always execute, regardless of the requested URL-path.

But this missing-slash case should already be handled by Apache mod_dir. You should look into why that is not already happening (ask your host if you're renting a server). It is possible (but not likely) that mod_dir is not loaded. It is also possible (if you are on Apache 2.x) that DirectorySlash is disabled.

You could try:

DirectorySlash on

if that is the case.

I suggest that you fix this configuration problem instead of adding a redirect rule to fix it.

Jim

[monia]

Its not about trailing slash for derictories. What I actually want to get are folloving server headers:

site.com - 301 redirected to site.com/
site.com/ - 200

and I dont know how to make this happend. Anybody help, pls !

[jdMorgan]

I do know how to make that happen. But you did not understand or test my answer, apparently.

Please read the mod_dir and DirectorySlash documentation at apache.org if you do not wish to test the proposed solution.

Jim