Some time ago I requested help with a rewrite rule to
strip trailing slash(es) from all URLs in our joomla
website, but I'm still having problems. This is the rule
I am currently working with:
RewriteRule ^(.*)/+$ https://linuxsecurity.com$1
[R=301,L]
It works fine for any URL other than the homepage.
Somehow for the homepage it creates an infinite loop,
despite using "L", so perhaps I don't understand what
it's doing. The (.*) is supposed to match any character,
but there wouldn't be any preceding elements for the
homepage.
The problem as I see it is that, for the homepage, (.*)
would be null, so $1 would also be null? This then
creates the same URL as the one we're trying to fix.
First it appears to work properly (trimmed for
legibility):
init rewrite engine with requested uri /
applying pattern '^(.*)/+$' to uri '/'
rewrite '/' -> 'https://linuxsecurity.com'
explicitly forcing redirect with https://linuxsecurity.com
escaping https://linuxsecurity.com
for redirect
redirect to https://linuxsecurity.com
[REDIRECT/301]
then it looks like it inits the rewrite engine again?
init rewrite engine with requested uri /, referer: https://linuxsecurity.com/
applying pattern '^(.*)/+$' to uri '/', referer: https://linuxsecurity.com/
rewrite '/' -> 'https://linuxsecurity.com',
referer: https://linuxsecurity.com/
explicitly forcing redirect with https://linuxsecurity.com,
referer: https://linuxsecurity.com/
escaping https://linuxsecurity.com
for redirect, referer: https://linuxsecurity.com/
redirect to https://linuxsecurity.com
[REDIRECT/301], referer: https://linuxsecurity.com/
This just loops repeatedly until it dies. I've also
made sure there's only one "RewriteEngine on" in the
virtual host config and the .htaccess. Would that even
matter?
What am I doing wrong? I've tried a thousand variations
of this to no avail.
