I have the following rewrite rules in my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/?$ /?action=news&start=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^man/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/?$ /?action=man&page=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/?$ /?action=$1 [L] All of then end with a /? to check for an optional trailing slash. This works – it means I can use either http://www.site.com/news/ or http://www.site.com/news to get to the news page, which is what I want. The problem is that, while http://www.site.com/news/ works fine and redirects silently and all that fun stuff, http://www.site.com/news is visibly redirected to http://www.site.com/news/?action=news for some reason. They both come up with the same site, but for some reason if I leave off the trailing slash, the URL changes and looks all nasty.
Any ideas what’s going on with this? I have no other rules in my .hyaccess file. I’ll also point out that http://www.site.com/news/0 and http://www.site.com/news/0/ do not suffer from the same problem. Both of them redirect invisibly to http://www.site.com/?action=news&start=0, which is what I want. It only seems to be a problem with that third rule.
If it helps any, the site is on SourceForge.net.
A wild guess: there is a directory named ‘news’, and the the automatic Apache directory ‘add a trailing slash’ redirect is kicking in and interacting with your RewriteRule in a weird way. If that’s the case,
may help.