laravel 4.1 force redirect/show 404 if without trailing slash

Question

I have old website and converted it to laravel 4.1; removed cut off trailing slash from htaccess.

The problem is that you can view the page without trailing slash and it is bad as can be abused in future

So I need to either to redirect 301 to page with trailing slash or show 404 how can I do this in elegant way?

Answer 1

I think this might be what you want. It will redirect everything without a trailing slash to the page with a trailing slash.

.htaccess

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

Answer 2

found here the htaccess method if sm1 interested Add Trailing Slash .htaccess

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/$|\.)

RewriteRule (.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]