Remove multiple trailing slashes in root using htaccess

Question

I have a rule in my htaccess file to remove any extra trailing slashes from a url, this works on sub-directories with any more than 1 trailing slash. However it doesn't work on the root; which i need it to do.

For example.

http://www.example.com/test//// Redirects to http://www.example.com/test/

http://www.example.com/// Needs to redirect to http://www.example.com

Any ideas on what i need to add?. Cheers.

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

Hard to say without seeing the current code... – Croises Oct 25 '17 at 12:59 — Croises, Oct 25 '17 at 12:59
Try cleaning your browser caches. – Amit Verma Oct 25 '17 at 14:54 — Amit Verma, Oct 25 '17 at 14:54

anubhava · Answer 1 · 2022-08-19T13:56:03.303

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For removing multiple slashes anywhere in REQUEST_URI this rule works best:

RewriteEngine On
    
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s[^?]*//
RewriteRule ^.*$ /$0 [R=301,L,NE]

It takes advantage of the fact that mod_rewrite engine itself converts all multiple forward slashes to a single slash in the RewriteRule pattern. We use RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} to make sure original REQUEST_URI contains multiple slashes.

Here [^?]*// matches 2 // before matching query string since [^?] matches anything except ?. This will allow // in query string.

edited Aug 19 '22 at 13:56

answered Jun 02 '18 at 10:13

anubhava

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Very nice solution! – Croises Jun 02 '18 at 15:05
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After searching many many hours, this is the one that finally worked. Thanks mate! – Awais Umar Aug 19 '22 at 13:42
Nice. However, I had to use `$0` instead of `/$0` in the `RewriteRule`. Otherwise, `/foo///bar///` was redirected to `//foo/bar/`. – Simon Mar 23 '23 at 11:10
`$0` will not have leading `/` if used in .htaccess but it will have a leading `/` if used in Apache config/vhost config. – anubhava Mar 23 '23 at 11:15

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered May 30 '18 at 23:41

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Try with:

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

answered May 30 '18 at 23:41

Croises

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I am not recommend this as it will generate more then one redirection on more then two slash – Dennis C Jun 05 '18 at 15:31
No, because `//+` is for `more then one slash` – Croises Jun 06 '18 at 06:24

Tarun Lalwani · Answer 3 · 2018-05-31T05:45:56.067

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You htaccess works great as you can test on below link

https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/

So you need to make sure you test either with a Chrome Incognito window or using like below

curl -v http://example.com////

I usually prefer curl as I know it will give a fresh response from the server always

edited May 31 '18 at 05:45

answered May 31 '18 at 04:52

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 05 '18 at 15:30

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You just need two rule to match two different pattern

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

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

answered Jun 05 '18 at 15:30

Dennis C

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