Trailing slashes problem
apache, mod-rewrite
Solution
You can make a character optional by appending the `?` quantifier to it like this:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ $1/index.html
Now both `/foobar` and `/foobar/` would be rewritten to `/foobar/index.html`.
But it would be better if you use just one spelling, with or without the trailing slash, and redirect the other one:
# remove trailing slash
RewriteRule (.+)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# add trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .*[^/]$ /$1/ [L,R=301]
These rules either remove or add a missing trailing slash and do a permanent redirect.
Problem
When I type this "http://example.com/Hello%20There/" , it displays the index page wich is : "http://example.com/Hello%20There/index.html" . Well, what I want to do is when the user types "http://example.com/Hello%20There" (so like the first one except it doesn't have a trailing slash). I tried many things and specially regular expressions, but nothing works because I think that the server stops the reg exp process when he finds a space ("%20" in the URL). I tried this reg exp: ``` Options +FollowSymLinks rewriteEngine On rewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)\ (.*html)$ rewriteRule ^.*$ %1-%2 [E=space_replacer:%1-%2] rewriteCond %{ENV:space_replacer}!^$ rewriteCond %{ENV:space_replacer}!^.*\ .*$ rewriteRule ^.*$ %{ENV:space_replacer} [R=301,L] ``` and also put: ``` DirectorySlash On ``` in the "mod_dir" module of Apache. So, my question is: - How to tell to the server to add a trailing slash when the user types an url without a trailing slash;$