Question

I posted up a question about an hour ago asking a regex question about trailing slashes

(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4907130/url-regex-remove-trailing-slash-from-file-name-and-end-of-url)

And a very helpful person gave me this to redirect pages with a trailing slash to a page with none.

However I have just noticed that it causes an infinite (never ending loop) of redirects if you try and access a folder, as you go to say http://example.com/images the server (Apache) adds a trailing slash as its a directory, then the Regex removes the slash, redirects back to the http://example.com/images URL which then gets its slash added back on by Apache etc etc :/

Any Ideas as to how to modify the rule below to prevent this?

 RewriteRule ^(.*)/$    $1  [R=301]

Many thanks, help always appreciated! 🙂

Answer 1

Added in the line below just above my current RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301] rule

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

Thanks for the reply though limc 🙂