On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 10:41 AM Dave Wreski
<dwre...@guardiandigital.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
You will need to stop using .htaccess files to prevent looping, as a first
step.  Edit your vhost.

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