Removing multiple slashes with htaccess

Question

I know how to do it with PHP, how to replace multiple slashes from URL to only one, for example:

http://example.com/uri1////////uri2/uri4

replace to:

http://example.com/uri1/uri2/uri4

etc. How do to it with htaccess?

Answer 1

Place this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s[^?]*//
RewriteRule ^.*$ /$0 [R=301,L,NE]