Strange behavior with my urls

something is wrong in Apache .conf file, I think!

[NickMNS]

Whenever I click on an external link, say from google to my website and the url has a /.

example.com/bluewidgets
example.com/blue/widgets

the slashes disappear and url becomes

example.combluewidgets

But if I go to the home page and click through to these pages with the links everything works fine.

I mentioned yesterday in an unrelated thread that I made changes with regards to slashes in the URLs, This has nothing to do with that as that change was never deployed to the server.

The last changes I made was with implementing the SSL certificates, I must have inadvertently made a typo in the .conf file. Anybody have any idea of what could be wrong?

[keyplyr]

Check your end anchors

[NickMNS]

This is what I have for the port 80 that is supposed to redirect to port 443, which it does. But what I think is happening is that it redirects all request from http://www.example.com/whatever/what/else to https://www.example.com but leaving keeping everything after the first slash like this https://www.example.comwhatever/what/else

<VirtualHost *:80>
Server Name example.com
Server Alias www.example.com
Redirect Permanent / https://www.example.com
</VirtualHost>

So how do I fix the redirect to keep the first slash?

[keyplyr]

(Just a guess) Have you tested with this?

<VirtualHost *:80>
Server Name example.com
Server Alias www.example.com
Redirect Permanent / https://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>

Of course Google may take a few days to update the links

[NickMNS]

So as I was typing the post I think I found the answer, I added a trailing slash:

Redirect Permanent / https://www.example.com/

I tried it, and seems to work.
@keyplyr I guess that what you meant by end anchor?
Can someone please confirm that this correct and sufficient?
Thanks!

[NickMNS]

@keyplyr

Of course Google may take a few days to update the links

Regretfully you are correct, links from Google are missing the slash.
I'll fetch and submit, to see if can expedite things.

Thank you!

[keyplyr]

Hopefully that did it :)

[NickMNS]

It seems to have worked.