Question

So I have this regex problem and wondered if anyone could help me out?

If a user visits http://example.com/index.php/ how can i modify/add to my regex to prevent a trailing slash(s) at the end?

also

I currently have a page, called post.php that can be accessed like so http://example.com/reviews/reviewTitle/ and http://example.com/news/newsTitle/

again, how could I prevent this trailing slash?

Below is the regex I have so far:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^reviews/([^/\.]+)/?$ reviews/post.php?title=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([^/\.]+)/?$ news/post.php?title=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^page/(.*) index.php?page=$1

Note: Im also re-writing http://example.com/index.php?page=1 to http://example.com/page/1 etc, same question, how can I prevent a trailing slash?

Many thanks, I really appreciate any help 🙂

Answer 1

Try adding this rule after RewriteEngine on

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$    $1  [R=301]
RewriteRule ^reviews/([^/\.]+)$ reviews/post.php?title=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([^/\.]+)$ news/post.php?title=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^page/(.*) index.php?page=$1

Edited to show full set of rules

Edited 2nd Time Added in

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

above new rule to allow directorys to still be accessed without causing an infinite redirect loop