How to name file and directory the same with .htaccess rewrite rules?

Question

I am trying to work on my \"pretty-urls\" and I\'ll be the first to admit I really don\'t know what I\'m doing. I\'m trying to wrap my head around it though. So what I am trying

Answer 1

This is because of mod-dir Apache directory module that runs before mod-rewrite . When you request an existent directory without a traling slash the mod-dir issues a permanent 301 Redirect from /dir to /dir/ and that is why you are unable to rewrite the uri.

To fix this, you need to tell mod-dir not to perform the redirection when a directory without a traling slash is requested. You can use DirectorySlash directive in your htaccess to change this behaviour.

Add the following line to your htaccess :

DirectorySlash off

Reference : https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_dir.html