.htaccess Rewrite to Force Trailing Slash at the end

Question

I have the following code in my htaccess file:

# Force Trailing Slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^[^/]+$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]

That seems to work fine when I go to www.mydomain.com/test it redirects it to /test/. The problem is when I go to www.mydomain.com/test/another it doesn't put the trailing slash on another.

Does anyone know how to modify my code to make the trailing slash work no matter how long the URL is?

Thanks!

Solution 1

RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2/ [L,R=301]

Edit: in the case you want to exclude some requests like for php files:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !\.(php|html?|jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2/ [L,R=301]

Solution 2

A slightly more robust answer, based on the answer above:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$        /$1$2/ [L,R=301]

The RewriteCond will check to make sure there's no files with that name, and if not, perform the RewriteRule. More future-proof than having a manual list of extensions!

Solution 3

While Death's solution works it can be annoying when you forget to add certain file types to the list. You can do this to force trailing slash for all URLs that do not point directly to a file using !-f in the condition.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*[^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [L,R=301]

Solution 4

The accepted answer didn't work for me. This did, from SEOMoz:

# Ensure all URLs have a trailing slash.
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

Note the RewriteBase / for each rule. At least, when I removed it, it stopped working.

Solution 5

This is working perfectly for me. ( from comment of user Ajax )
The problem with other links was my CSS stopped working after applying the redirect rule but CSS is also working fine with the below rewrite rule

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

Complete code

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
    #Force Trailing slash
    RewriteRule ^((.*)[^/])$ $1/ [L,R=301]
</IfModule> 

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Comments

[Eruant]

You may also want to include css and js. This is very useful!

[moobot]

I tried this, but it is adding a trailing slash on files that end in .html

[moobot]

I tried this, but it is adding a trailing slash on files that end in .html

[jeffbyrnes]

If the URL leads to a real file, it shouldn't be hitting this rule; are you unnecessarily adding .html to your "nice" URLs?

[moobot]

Not me, but I guess Magento is! Thanks for the reply, I did however find a redirect which is only adding it to URLs without extensions: paulund.co.uk/using-htaccess-to-force-trailing-slash

[jeffbyrnes]

Ah, yeah, Magento does that by default. There's lots of great SEO/usability reasons to change that behavior of Magento's, if you can.

[Daniel W.]

@undone Might I ask what the ? after html stands for, and why you didn't put php? with the question mark?

[undone]

@DanFromGermany question mark in regexp indicates that preceding character (in this case l) , may or may not exists in the string. so in can cover both htm and html extensions!

[Martie]

This answer also worked wonders for me. Only problem I ran into was my redirect pointing to a weird server path. I fixed this by adding RewriteBase /. This made the redirect work like a charm!

[Tomas Gonzalez]

This worked perfectly for me. Thanks! When trying this or any solution, remember to clear your borwser's cache.

[dnns]

Perfect. Thanks a lot!

[manikandan krishnamoorthy]

<rule name="Remove trailing slash" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="^([^.]+)/$" />

[Timothy]

You should add the line of code to your answer instead of commenting it !

[Mattypants]

I tried this as well, but still see trailing slashes added to pages like sitemap.xml. Is it possible that the server settings decide what is viewed as a file to be downloaded and one to be rendered in the browser, and this affects how !-f is interpreted?

[Phil]

This solution adds a slash to files as well!