Question

I have a link http://mysite.com/myname which shows the profile page.. But if i use multiple

slashes like http://mysite.com///myname , it also shows the page..

My htaccess code is :

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(\w+)/?$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^ profile.php?username=%1 [L,QSA]

How to avoid this problem?

Can someone help me?

Answer 1

Not sure why do you really want to block multiple slashes but here is a way to do that:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/{2,} [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [L,F]

This will give Forbidden error is a URI has multiple slashes at start like ///myname will generate:

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /myname on this server.