.htaccess remove trailing slash after file extension

Question

I have some external links to my site that referrer to pages with a file extension and a trailing slash after that eg

http://example.com/folder/page.php/

I can not change these links, but I would like to 301 redirect those links to this format instead:

http://example.com/folder/page/

I've tried this, but it doesn't work:

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

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this in your /.htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /([^.]+)\.php/? [NC] 
RewriteRule ^ /%1/ [NC,R,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /$1.php [L,NC]