Question

I’d like to redirect web requests from example.org to www.example.org. I think I have the right rule, but it is adding two extra forward slashes:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.org [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.org/$1 [R=permanent,L]

The above would take me from example.org to www.example.org//

Is there a way to strip those trailing slashes? I tried the following variant, which strips those slashes but causes a redirect loop:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.org [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.org/$1 [R=permanent,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

How might I solve this?

Answer 1

Try adding RewriteBase / right after RewriteEngine on.

If that doesn’t do it, change your rule to RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.example.org/$1 [R=301,L] so you don’t capture the initial /.