Question

I have the following code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^m\.domain\.com?$
RewriteRule ^ http://domain.com/ipad%{REQUEST_URI} [L,P]

So my subdomain, http://m.domain.com is really pulling from http://domain.com/ipad/

Everything works fine if I type in: http://m.domain.com/shop-name/ it works perfectly. But when I leave out the trailing slash and type in http://m.domain.com/shop-name it redirects to http://domain.com/ipad/shop-name/ which shouldn’t happen, no one should see the ipad directory.

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Thank you!

Answer 1

This might be because mod_dir is processing the request internally. When you access http://m.domain.com/shop-name and then it gets rewritten to http://domain.com/ipad/shop-name, mod_dir 302 redirects the browser to http://domain.com/ipad/shop-name/.

You can try handling the trailing slash in your RewriteRule. Probably a cleaner way of doing this, but something along the lines of:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^m\.domain\.com?$
# Has trailing slash in request, don't need to append one in the RewriteRule
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ./\ HTTP/1\.[01]$
RewriteRule ^ http://domain.com/ipad%{REQUEST_URI} [L,P]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^m\.domain\.com?$
# Missing trailing slash in request
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} [^/]\ HTTP/1\.[01]$
# Request doesn't end with one of these extensions, 301 redirect to include trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(php|html?|jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule . http://m.domain.com%{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301]

EDIT: edited to address the 301 redirect of missing trailing slash