Force adding slach to the end in RewriteRule

Question

i'm working with mod_rewrite under .htaccess, and i'm trying to fore adding a slach "/" to the end of the url : interpret this url : http://domain/ABC/DEF like this http://domain/ABC/DEF/

how can i write the rule please ?

Answer 1

To add a trailing slash at the end of Request_uri, You can use the following rule in htaccess :

RewriteEngine On
#If there is already a trailing slash, skip the rule.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$ 
#else redirect any request to add a trailing slash
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /$1/ [L,R]

This automatically adds a trailing slash and changes the url

• http://example.com/foo/bar

to

• http://example.com/foo/bar/

The RewriteCond is important here to avoid redirect loop error, without this condition a request for /foo redirects to /foo/ on initial iteration, On the second iteration the target url /foo/ matches the Rewrite pattern and redirects /foo/ to /foo/ and causes the loop error.

(Hope ,This helps!)