htaccess - Remove multiple slashes after domain with encoded accented characters

Question

I can remove multiple slashes anywhere in URL using:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*?)(/{2,})(.*)$
RewriteRule . %1/%3 [R=301,L]

But it doesn't work for multiple slashes after the domain

I have tried

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=""
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\s//+(.*)\sHTTP/[0-9.]+$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\s(.*/)/+\sHTTP/[0-9.]+$
RewriteRule .* http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%1 [R=301,L]

from: remove multiple trailing slashes mod_rewrite

and

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^([A-Z]{3,9})\ (.*)//([^\ ]*)
RewriteRule ^ %2/%3 [R=301,L]

from: Remove trailing slash after domain

both produce the expected rewirting when going from

domain.com/////hello

to

domain.com/hello

but from

 domain.com/////héllo

the result is encoded

domain.com/h%25c%25allo

How to prevent accented characters to get encoded when removing multiple slashes after domain ?

EDIT: pear to anubhava's answer

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+(.*?)/{2,}([^\s]*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/%2 [R=301,L,NE]

The accented character is protected and trimed with succes with more than to repeated slashes

domain.com////////héllo

but not with only 2

domain.com//héllo

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-02T17:42:41.497

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This rule should work for you:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+(.*?)/+(/[^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1%2 [R=302,L,NE]

This will do these redirections:

/////help => /help
/////héllo/////abc/////123 => /héllo/abc/123

edited Feb 02 '14 at 17:42

answered Feb 02 '14 at 16:51

anubhava

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the accented character is protected but the result is domain.com//héllo – RafaSashi Feb 02 '14 at 16:53
I have updated the question according to your answer. would it be possible to add a [OR] condition to deal with the double slash? – RafaSashi Feb 02 '14 at 17:06
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This will also work for `domain.com/////héllo/////abc/////123` redirecting that to `domain.com/héllo/abc/123` – anubhava Feb 02 '14 at 17:23
in fact not for me... testing... true!! I have forgotten the other cleanning rules after thisone. thanks anubhava it is officially the best answer from now – RafaSashi Feb 02 '14 at 17:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 02 '14 at 17:20

anubhava's answer is the shortest but alternatively this one is also working:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=""
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\s//+(.*)\sHTTP/[0-9.]+$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\s(.*/)/+\sHTTP/[0-9.]+$
RewriteRule .* http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%1 [R=301,L,NE]

htaccess - Remove multiple slashes after domain with encoded accented characters

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