Question

What do I need to do to the following rewrite rule to make it so it works whether or not their is a slash at the end of the URL?

ie. http://mydomain.com/content/featured or http://mydomain.com/content/featured/

RewriteRule ^content/featured/ /content/today.html  

Answer 1

Use the $ to mark the end of the string and the ? to mark the preceding expression to be repeated zero or one times:

RewriteRule ^content/featured/?$ content/today.html 

But I recommend you to stick to one notation and correct misspelled:

# remove trailing slashes RewriteRule (.*)/$ $1 [L,R=301]  # add trailing slashes RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule .*[^/]$ $0/ [L,R=301]