On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM Dave Wreski
<dwre...@guardiandigital.com.invalid> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following rule that works well to remove trailing slashes from
>> URLs:
>>
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
>> RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301,L]
>>
>> This is done to prevent the non-slash URL from being treated as duplicate
>> content with the URL with a slash.
>>
>> The problem is that there are exceptions, such as when we want to add
>> query strings to the end of a URL:
>>
>> https://example.com/administrator/path/?cms_settings
>>
>> I've also tried a variation, like:
>>
>> https://example.com/administrator/path?cms_settings
>>
>> but somehow the slash is replaced back into the URL and I don't know
>> where it comes from.
>>
>> Adding index.php to the path works properly because it's then not a
>> directory:
>>
>> https://example.com/administrator/path/index.php?cms_settings
>>
>> Any ideas greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
> What does the rewrite log say, exactly?
>
> There's a tremendous amount of noise at trace5 (although probably only
> trace4 was apparently really necessary), and I've had trouble generally
> identifying the entries related to this specific rule, but here are a few
> entries I think represent what's happening.
>
>
> https://webstage.example.com/administrator/sqlantern-joomla/php/?cms_settings
> [Tue Jan 16 08:55:13.289102 2024] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 904886:tid 904938]
> mod_rewrite.c(493): [client 68.111.193.42:0] 68.195.193.42 - - [
> webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid#7f2b1c0bc210/initial
> <http://webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid%237f2b1c0bc210/initial>]
> applying pattern '^(.*)/$' to uri '/administrator/sqlantern-joomla/php/'
>
> [Tue Jan 16 08:55:13.289129 2024] [rewrite:trace4] [pid 904886:tid 904938]
> mod_rewrite.c(493): [client 68.195.193.42:0] 68.111.193.42 - - [
> webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid#7f2b1c0bc210/initial
> <http://webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid%237f2b1c0bc210/initial>]
> RewriteCond: input='/administrator/sqlantern-joomla/php/' pattern='!-d' =>
> matched
>
> [Tue Jan 16 08:55:13.289143 2024] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 904886:tid 904938]
> mod_rewrite.c(493): [client 68.111.193.42:0] 68.195.193.42 - - [
> webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid#7f2b1c0bc210/initial
> <http://webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid%237f2b1c0bc210/initial>]
> rewrite '/administrator/sqlantern-joomla/php/' ->
> '/administrator/sqlantern-joomla/php'
>
> [Tue Jan 16 08:55:13.289156 2024] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 904886:tid 904938]
> mod_rewrite.c(493): [client 68.111.193.42:0] 68.195.193.42 - - [
> webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid#7f2b1c0bc210/initial
> <http://webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid%237f2b1c0bc210/initial>]
> explicitly forcing redirect with
> https://webstage.example.com/administrator/sqlantern-joomla/php
>
> [Tue Jan 16 08:55:13.289181 2024] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 904886:tid 904938]
> mod_rewrite.c(493): [client 68.111.193.42:0] 68.195.193.42 - - [
> webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid#7f2b1c0bc210/initial
> <http://webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid%237f2b1c0bc210/initial>]
> escaping https://webstage.example.com/administrator/sqlantern-joomla/php
> for redirect
>
> [Tue Jan 16 08:55:13.289195 2024] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 904886:tid 904938]
> mod_rewrite.c(493): [client 68.111.193.42:0] 68.195.193.42 - - [
> webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid#7f2b1c0bc210/initial
> <http://webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid%237f2b1c0bc210/initial>]
> copying cms_settings to query string for redirect
>
> [Tue Jan 16 08:55:13.289205 2024] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 904886:tid 904938]
> mod_rewrite.c(493): [client 68.111.193.42:0] 68.195.193.42 - - [
> webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid#7f2b1c0bc210/initial
> <http://webstage.example.com/sid#560ba7f01a68][rid%237f2b1c0bc210/initial>]
> redirect to
> https://webstage.example.com/administrator/sqlantern-joomla/php?cms_settings
> [REDIRECT/301]
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
>
Based on those log entries, the rewrite worked fine.
Perhaps you're dealing with DirectorySlash here.
