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PHP Enhancing a Simple PHP Application Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules Adding a Trailing Slash

Oziel Perez
Oziel Perez
61,321 Points
Posted by Oziel Perez
Oziel Perez
61,321 Points

Universal Rewrite Rule to add Trailing Slash to Any URL

Ok so after seeing the php video about adding a trailing slash using rewrite rules, I figured it was only applicable to specific urls. What if I have several urls that need to be redirected if there is no trailing slash. Is there something like that out there, especially one that accounts for any depth of directories?

In essence, I want to know if theres a rewrite rule that will, for example, redirect example.com/sample, example.com/anothersample and example.com/sample/sampe-a/sample-b all in one rule.

While I'm at it, an expert suggested that I use this:

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

The rule above didnt work for me in the end.

1 Answer

Zachary Green
Zachary Green
16,359 Points
Zachary Green
Zachary Green
16,359 Points

What would be the end goal of having all those different uri's? you could use the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] super gobal to pull in the uri and parse it. then you could redirect in the php page to the address you want.