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I'm trying to redirect a series of static URLs, and I want it to work whether or not the trailing slash is present:
/foo/bar ---> /tacos /foo/bar/ --> /tacos I've tried the following, and all sorts of variations, but I always get a match only with the trailing slash present:
RewriteRule ^foo/bar?/$ http://url.com/tacos RewriteRule ^foo/bar(?/)$ http://url.com/tacos RewriteRule ^foo/bar*/$ http://url.com/tacos RewriteRule ^foo/bar(*/)$ http://url.com/tacos I feel like I'm missing something obvious. Help?
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We can remove a trailing slash from a URL LINK by using a combination of LEFT, RIGHT, and LEN functions.
mod_rewrite works through the rules one at a time, processing any rules that match the requested URL. If a rule rewrites the requested URL to a new URL, that new URL is then used from that point onward in the . htaccess file, and might be matched by another RewriteRule further down the file.
The $1 is basically the captured contents of everything from the start and the end of the string. In other words, $1 = (. *) .
The short answer is that the trailing slash does not matter for your root domain or subdomain. Google sees the two as equivalent. But trailing slashes do matter for everything else because Google sees the two versions (one with a trailing slash and one without) as being different URLs.
Other than in EBNF or ABNF, a quantifier in regular expressions refers the preceding expression and not the following expression.
So:
RewriteRule ^foo/bar/?$ http://url.com/tacos If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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