How to avoid multiple slashes after domain name in url using htaccess?

Question

I have a link http://mysite.com/myname which shows the profile page.. But if i use multiple

slashes like http://mysite.com///myname , it also shows the page..

My htaccess code is :

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(\w+)/?$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^ profile.php?username=%1 [L,QSA]

How to avoid this problem?

Can someone help me?

My htaccess code is : RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(\w+)/?$ [NC] RewriteRule ^ profile.php?username=%1 [L,QSA].. anything wrong? — Micku, Feb 08 '12 at 07:48
@David : Ma problem is http://mysite.com///myname , it shows profile page even it has more than one slash after domain.... But i dont want to show profile page in this situation.. — Micku, Feb 08 '12 at 08:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 08 '12 at 08:23

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You can add the following if you want to ensure you're not treating multiple forward slashes as a single slash (which seems to be default Apache behavior and not any sort of bug or the result of a bad rewrite).

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /[^/\s]+\ HTTP

This should enforce a single-slash rule. Of course, this will also make it impossible to use anything like http://example.com/myname/edit, but that could be worked around using a more complicated regex if necessary.

answered Feb 08 '12 at 08:23

Dan Ambrisco

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You should add this **before** your other RewriteConds. If doing that doesn't work, I'm out of explanations since either @anubhava's answer or my answer should work just fine. – Dan Ambrisco Feb 08 '12 at 20:16

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 08 '12 at 08:39

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Not sure why do you really want to block multiple slashes but here is a way to do that:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/{2,} [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [L,F]

This will give Forbidden error is a URI has multiple slashes at start like ///myname will generate:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /myname on this server.

answered Feb 08 '12 at 08:39

anubhava

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Hmm I posted that after properly testing it. Can you post your full .htaccess in your question (not in comments). – anubhava Feb 08 '12 at 08:53

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 08 '12 at 19:31

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Use this code to remove double slashes from the urls.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} //
RewriteRule ^ $0 [R=302]

Change the 302 to 301 once you get it working.

answered Feb 08 '12 at 19:31

Gerben

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How to avoid multiple slashes after domain name in url using htaccess?

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