Adding a trailing slash after adding www and removing .php

Question

I have a site with pages like about.php, contact.php and test.php?id=xyz.

I added the below redirect for making it seo friendly.

Options -Indexes -MultiViews RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.krishibazar\.org$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.krishibazar.org/$1 [R=301,L] # To externally redirect /dir/file.php to /dir/file RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+(?:index)?(.*?)\.php[\s?] [NC] RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,L,NE] # To internally forward /dir/file to /dir/file.php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1\.php -f [NC] RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ /$1.php [L]

This gives me

mydomain.com => www.mydomain.com mydomain.com/about.php => www.mydomain.com/about mydomain.com/test.php?id=12 => www.mydomain.com/test?id=12 mydomain.com/about/ => CSS Error

It is working perfectly fine except if i add a trailing slash at the last its giving error. So either suggest me to prevent the error or adding a trailing slash.

add this just below <head> section of your page's HTML: <base href="/" /> — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Mar 16, 2016 at 20:07
This worked for me as well except now about and about/ both are opening. It might create SEO duplicates. What do you say ? — Prateek
– Prateek, Commented Mar 16, 2016 at 20:31

Jan Papenbrock · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-16 20:10:36Z

Option 1: Get rid of the slashes (good for SEO)

How about an additional rule to just handle URL with trailing slashes?

I would place it between the externally and internally redirects above, like this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

That should redirect all URL to their slash-free version before they are rewritten to the PHP file.

Option 2: Fix your CSS

I suppose you are referencing your stylesheet relatively, like

<style href="css/style.css" />

You might change it to an absolute reference

<style href="/css/style.css" />

And it should work regardless of the assumed directory depth (denoted by slashes in the URL).

Conclusion

I would go for option 1 in this case, as it provides a single URL for all pieces of content, which is preferrable in my opinion.

First one worked flawlessly for me. Thanks @Jan for your conclusion which helped me in deciding the best.
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