Remove trailing slashes

Question

I'd like to work with pages without trailing slashes. So now I want my URL's with an trailing slash to redirect (using .htaccess) to the same URL without the trailing slash.

I got two .htaccess files:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On

  RewriteRule (.*)  public/$1
</IfModule>

And one in my public folder:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Options -Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On        
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [PT,L]
</IfModule>

I tried adding the following rule to the .htaccess file in the public folder:

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

But then: example.com/public/page/view/2/

Redirects to: example.com/**D:/webserver/**public/page/view/2

Which is obviously not what I want...

Answer 1

Wordpress redirects depending on what your permalink structure is. So any changes to .htaccess helps little since Wordpress will add/remove them for you and peform a wp_redirect() after .htaccess done things. In worst case you end up with a redirect loop.

A solution is to turn off Wordpress redirecting using.

// perhaps an if(is_something()) before here ...
add_filter('redirect_canonical', '__return_false');

You should wrap this inside an if statement or such where you perform a check for a certain page/directory/etc. Putting the above directly in your functions file will turn off wordpress redirections and probably break things.