Remove trailing slash using .htaccess except for home / landing page

Question

I've successfully modified my .htaccess file to remove trailing slashes on most pages but I'm wondering how to exempt my home page/directory? For example:

domain.com/test/ successfully redirects to domain.com/test

HOWEVER, when I hit my domain it will append the root document

domain.com/ redirects to domain.com/index.php

Is there a condition that I can add to ignore root url trailing slash so that it doesn't attempt to remove the trailing slash and add my default script? Here's what I have so far:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+)/$
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$  /$1 [R=301,L]

score 29 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 18 '10 at 16:56

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OK. After a bunch of trial and error I answered my own question.

The third line denotes that there has to be something in the URI in order to perform the redirect thus not redirecting if the url just contains the initial slash.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

answered Nov 18 '10 at 16:56

Dan

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Instead of `http://www.domain.com/$1` you can use `http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1` better. So user don't need to edit that line and make possible errors. – Code Guru Sep 25 '13 at 07:41
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@YH's solution does not work for websites in subdirectories (nor for localhost, which cannot have `www.` before itself). So e.g. `localhost/web1/page1/` is redirected in a wrong way to `www.localhost/page1`. – Martin Pecka Nov 17 '13 at 16:32

score 17 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 10 '14 at 17:01

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Redirects request for all URLs ending in a / except for the root:

RedirectMatch 301 ^(.+)/$ $1

answered Feb 10 '14 at 17:01

Greg Perham

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also handles http / https equally – d.sergeiev Jul 16 '14 at 12:47
I have add this code in htaccess file. Its working fine. But My css files are not load. – VijayS91 Dec 05 '14 at 12:48
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This redirect rule only targets URLs that end in a "/". I do not think it could be affecting CSS files. I am using this code on a live site, and all files load correctly. – Greg Perham Dec 05 '14 at 18:40

score 9 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 23 '12 at 22:09

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How about

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1

edited Feb 23 '12 at 22:09

animuson

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answered Feb 21 '12 at 09:49

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Remove trailing slash using .htaccess except for home / landing page

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