Trailing slashes problem

Question

When I type this \"http://example.com/Hello%20There/\" , it displays the index page wich is : \"http://example.com/Hello%20There/index.html\" .

Well, what I want to

Answer 1

You can make a character optional by appending the ? quantifier to it like this:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ $1/index.html

Now both /foobar and /foobar/ would be rewritten to /foobar/index.html.

But it would be better if you use just one spelling, with or without the trailing slash, and redirect the other one:

# remove trailing slash
RewriteRule (.+)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

# add trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .*[^/]$ /$1/ [L,R=301]

These rules either remove or add a missing trailing slash and do a permanent redirect.