How to fix htaccess with and without trailing slash

Question

Hello I am facing a very little problem, when i browse site without trailing slash it works fine but when i add trailing slash in the end it redirect me to 404 page

e.g.

mysite.com/category/slug-name/page/3/

mysite.com/category/slug-name/page/5/

works fine but when i click page 1 it that has a trailing slash i.e.

mysite.com/category/slug-name/

it gives error but without trailing slash it works fine for me

Similarly on articles page when i access without trailing slash it works but when i add trailing slash in the end, It redirects me to 404 page e.g. when i access this URL it works fine

mysite.com/123-article-slug-here

but in this case I got 404 error

mysite.com/123-article-slug-here/

I am sure that there is a problem in my htaccess but know how to fix it

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/(.+)/?$ category.php?id=$1&page=$2 [NC,L] RewriteRule ^category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/?$ category.php?id=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/?$ article.php?url=$1

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-12 14:42:14Z

Try either removing the / from the slug name regex grouping or make that match non-greedy:

Remove / from grouping:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^category/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/page/(.+)/?$ category.php?id=$1&page=$2 [NC,L] RewriteRule ^category/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/?$ category.php?id=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/?$ article.php?url=$1

Make non-greedy:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+?)/page/(.+)/?$ category.php?id=$1&page=$2 [NC,L] RewriteRule ^category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+?)/?$ category.php?id=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+?)/?$ article.php?url=$1

What's probably happening is that the / is getting matched inside the grouping (the parens) and that is getting passed to your category.php, and it doesn't like the / so returns a 404.

Awesome Non-greedy works for me thanks but can you please tell me what is the difference between removing / from grouping and non-greedy
@Brajman Removing the / from the grouping means you can't have / in your slug names, so: /category/this/is/my-slug/ won't work. But if you make the match non-greedy, you can still match the / but it just won't match the optional slash at the end.
Oh thats a great info for me. Really really Thanks once again

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