Question

Hello I have the following problem: I have some pages (php includes) which I load them like this

http://www.domain.com/news/

they work perfect. But if I remove the trailing slash

http://www.domain.com/news

this happens -> http://www.domain.com/news/?page=news&request=

Here are my htaccess rules:

RewriteEngine on

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
    mod_gzip_on       Yes
    mod_gzip_dechunk  Yes
    mod_gzip_item_include file      \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl|jpg|png|gif)$
    mod_gzip_item_include handler   ^cgi-script$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime      ^text/.*
    mod_gzip_item_include mime      ^application/x-javascript.*
    mod_gzip_item_exclude mime      ^image/.*
    mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</IfModule>




Options -Indexes
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)(.*)$ /index.php?page=$1&request=$2

PS. Could it by because I have a news folder in the root document as well ?

Answer 1

Yes, it’s because you have a news/ folder in the root. Your Rewrite Condition is looking for anything that isn’t a file (i.e. !-f) or a directory (!-d). Try renaming your news/ directory in the root.

If you must, you can force domain.com/news to rewrite to domain.com/news/ by doing the following:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1/ [L,R=301]