Trailing Slash Removal - help

Server Config
1

I want to remove ALL trailing slashes on file names, NOT directories on a php driven site

How to do that? As I have tried multiple htaccess edits and none work

latest is   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mywebsite\\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

and I did change website to mine

The site is designed as follow

  1. each page name has a folder page1… > index.php inside which calls includes files header.php, footer.php, navbar.php and > contents folder > page1.php

SAMPLE of page1.index.php file



<?php
  // Edit the following three lines of code. '$a' adjusts the relative paths of the page. '$current" tells the Nav Bar what the current page is. '$thisPageContent'  match the filename in the includes > 6.content folder.
	$a = '../';
	$current = 1;
	$thisPageContent = 'page1.php';
	
	// Do not change the following line of code. You can go into the '0.seo.php' file to edit SEO content.
	include ($a . 'includes/0.seo.php');
	
	// Edit the following three lines of code. You will want to match the variables after the equals sign to the variables in '0.seo.php'.
	$thisPageTitle = $page1Title;
	$thisPageKeywords = $page1keywords;
	$thisPageDescription = $page1Description;
?>

<?php
	
	include ($a . 'includes/1.doctype.php');
?>
<head>
<?php include ($a . 'includes/2.header.php'); ?>

  <title><?=$thisPageTitle?></title>
		
  <meta name="keywords" content="<?=$thisPageKeywords?>">	
  <meta name="description" content="<?=$thisPageDescription?>">

</head>

<body>

<?php
  include ($a . 'includes/3.top.php');
  include ($a . 'includes/4.navbar.php');
  include ($a . 'includes/6.content/' . $thisPageContent );
  include ($a . 'includes/7.footer.php');
?>

</body>
</html>

The problem is every single page has a trailing slash behind it, directories and normal page names.

I want www.website.com/page1/
to be
www.website.com/page1

and this solution did not work:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mywebsite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

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

htaccess 


# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName site.com
AuthUserFile /home/bolo/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/bolo/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.site.com/404

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.site.com/$1 [R=301,L]

order allow,deny
deny from
94.100.22.210
213.238.175.8
188.143.232.31
188.143.232.111
allow from all


<IfModule mod_expires.c>

# Enable expirations
ExpiresActive On

# Default directive
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"

# My favicon
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"

# Images
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"

# CSS
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"

# Javascript
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"

</IfModule>

and I don’t know why FrontPage is in there at the top for this site.

2

I realize it is a php diven site… it fetches includes files and content > page1.php ut if there is a way Wordpress can do this, is there not a similar way for one customly built?

3

lukkas,

What you’re trying to do is:

If the URI is not a directory
Redirect removing any trailing slash.

Hmmm, that sounds like

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

You only need the RewriteCond if you’re sharing the directory with another domain (which you don’t want to redirect).

Whew! Rather than code all that in PHP, removing the trailing / will resolve your relative link problems! (It looks like you’re trying to use PHP to undo poor links, i.e., with trailing /'s, rather than generate good links). If you still have a problem with relative links, use the <BASE> tag I reference in my signature’s tutorial to set the directory level (location of index.php in your directory structure).

Regards

DK