Trailing Slash for the Root Directory

Discussion in 'Apache' started by AHA7, Mar 24, 2009.

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    Hello,

    Is there a way to redirect "http://example.com" to "http://example.com/" using .htaccess?

    The request URL for both of them is /. Is there a way to force the trailing slash for the root directory of my site?
     
    AHA7, Mar 24, 2009 IP
  2. hans

    hans Well-Known Member

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    as far as I know that would be default behavior of an apache - to internally redirect to / if slash is missing on a folder.
    since this redirect is additional work for apache it normally is better to have links to your site already with a url with trailing /

    otherwise I am usure why you want .htaccess do what apache does by default
     
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    RewriteRule ^$ http://www.mydomain.com/ [R=301,L]
    Code (markup):
     
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    I don't think that will work, because the request URI would be / (^/$) in both cases.
     
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    ^$ would be nothing. ^/$ would be one slash. Correct?
     
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    The user must make the following request in both cases:

    GET [B]/[/B] HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mydomain.com
    Code (markup):
     
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