URL Regex - remove trailing slash from file name and end of URL?

Question

So I have this regex problem and wondered if anyone could help me out?

If a user visits http://example.com/index.php/ how can i modify/add to my regex to prevent a trailing slash(s) at the end?

also

I currently have a page, called post.php that can be accessed like so http://example.com/reviews/reviewTitle/ and http://example.com/news/newsTitle/

again, how could I prevent this trailing slash?

Below is the regex I have so far:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^reviews/([^/\.]+)/?$ reviews/post.php?title=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^news/([^/\.]+)/?$ news/post.php?title=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^page/(.*) index.php?page=$1

Note: Im also re-writing http://example.com/index.php?page=1 to http://example.com/page/1 etc, same question, how can I prevent a trailing slash?

Many thanks, I really appreciate any help :)

Ross · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-05 16:21:12Z

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Try adding this rule after RewriteEngine on

RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301] RewriteRule ^reviews/([^/\.]+)$ reviews/post.php?title=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^news/([^/\.]+)$ news/post.php?title=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^page/(.*) index.php?page=$1

Edited to show full set of rules

Edited 2nd Time Added in

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

above new rule to allow directorys to still be accessed without causing an infinite redirect loop

edited Feb 5, 2011 at 16:21

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answered Feb 5, 2011 at 13:42

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Ross Over a year ago

Hey thanks for the reply, but it causes example.com/reviews/reviewTitle or example.com/news/reviewTitle to not work at all (404 Not Found) and adding a trailing slash causes an Internal Server Error :/

Ross Over a year ago

Thanks again, but it now causes an infinite loop of redirects :/ (Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.)

Ross Over a year ago

Woo Hoo :D It's working now, although I added a / before the $1 to make it redirect to the root, as it was redirecting to the var/www/ folders. Thank you!

xzyfer Over a year ago

to fix that add RewriteBase / I'll post the full code above for you

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