Question

Im trying to implement 2 rules

1) Forced www.

I have got it working by doing

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

2) Add trailing forward slash on all urls

I got this far by doing this

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1/ [R=301,L]

and then I ran into a problem,

type url

1) www.domain.com --rewrites to--> http://www.domain.com/  ---Desired Result

2) domain.com --rewrites to--> http://www.domain.com//  ---Undesired Result

3) domain.com/location1 --rewrites to--> http://www.domain.com/location1/  ---Desired Result

4) www.domain.com/location1 --rewrites to--> http://www.domain.com/location1  ---Undesired Result

How can I write it so that i get these 2 rules working?

Answer 1

this rule will redirect all visits without the www:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com$1 [R=301]

See that I removed the flag to make it the last rule.

and the second one to put the trailing slash:

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

It won’t redirect when the URL already ends in a slash. You’ll get 2 redirects when someone visits a page without the www and without the slash. If you just want to do this due to search engines, it is fine. If your own site often point to a URL like this, you’ll need another regexp.

If SEO is your motive, also take a look to canonical URLs