Htaccess: add/remove trailing slash from URL

Question

My website runs a script called -> WSS wallpaper script

My Problem -> I have been trying to force remove or add trailing slash to the end of my URL

Answer 1

To complement Jon Lin's answer, here is a no-trailing-slash technique that also works if the website is located in a directory (like example.org/blog/):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]

For the sake of completeness, here is an alternative emphasizing that REQUEST_URI starts with a slash (at least in .htaccess files):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,L] <-- added slash here too, don't forget it

Just don't use %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$. Because in the root directory REQUEST_URI equals /, the leading slash, and it would be misinterpreted as a trailing slash.

If you are interested in more reading:

• PR 3145 for Laravel
• A discussion on commit 343c31e

(update: this technique is now implemented in Laravel 5.5)