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I am seeking way to force the backslash as the end of a url. For example, the correct form is:
[webmasterworld.com...]
If someone enters
[webmasterworld.com...]
without the last slash they are redirected to
[webmasterworld.com...]
Some browsers seem to do this automagically but at least one version of IE doesn't.
I have access to .htaccess.
Thank you in advance
It took me 5 hours to hunt down the solution, so to spare you that agonizing waste of time, here it is for you and all posterity...
RewriteEngine on# Set rewrite base to the base directory
RewriteBase /# If the url is an existing directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d# Don't rewrite the URI
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]# If the URI does not end with a slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!/$# and the URI does not contain a full stop (Example: index.html)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!\.# Rewrite the URI to have a trailing slash
RewriteRule (.+) /$1/ [R=301,L]
The only part that you actually NEED is the last three lines, but I included the preceding two in case you wanted to make sure you don't get actual directories redirected (httpd.conf takes care of those and doing it twice can cause an infinite loop OR they can cause you to get 404's).
# If the url is not an existing directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# and the URI does not contain a full stop (Example: index.html)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
# and if the URI does not end with a slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
# Rewrite the URI to have a trailing slash
RewriteRule (.+) /$1/ [R=301,L]
Jim
URLs always use a normal forward / slash.
