Question

I am stuck trying to write a rewrite rule for my htaccess file which should forward from for example http://www.example.com/en to http://www.example.com/en/

I tried: RewriteRule ^en/?$ en [L]
but nothing happens. Does someone have an idea how to accomplish this?

Answer 1

You can use following rules in your .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(?![^/]*/).*$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ index.php?lang=$1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?$ index.php?action=$2&lang=$1 [QSA,L]

This will:

• externally redirect: /en to /en/ and internally redirect this to /index.php?lang=en
• internall redirect: /fr/login to /index.php?action=login&lang=fr

Additionally: As per your comment you will need this rule to add www in domain:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]