Rewrite affecting multiple directories. Also need help with a rewrite rule

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@dklynn

escape the slash character in your regular expressions (it doesn’t need it).

Ah, true. That was copy/paste from the regex tester I use to verify my regexes are matching properly.

@dklynn

redirect to the DocumentRoot with a / (that causes Apache to look to ITS root first so that’s a great advantage for hackers); It’s also not necessary if this .htaccess (mod_rewrite code) is located in the domain’s DocumentRoot.

Yeah, I discovered that after I gave it a test and saw what it did (was trying to do this without any way to test it and I really don’t do it very often anymore)

@dklynn

using optional trailing slash characters will cause all internal links in the new {REQUEST_URI} to have two options for directory level of the request (meaning either the / version will be correct and the non-slash to fail to find internal links or visa versa). IMHO, absolute internal links are a terrible way to resolve this issue as I have never found any reason to have an optional trailing slash (except when redirecting to a DIRECTORY where that it the technically correct way to specify the link).

This is my OCD, as I hate when URL …/reference/a works but …/reference/a/ doesn’t.