how to remove forward slash from specific url using htaccess

Question

I have the following .htaccessfile

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

And I have the following url:

http://localhost/mysite/loginPage/

I want to ensure that this url will never ends with forward slash (loginPage/).

I tried to use the following lines:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(\?.*)?$ $1$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+/[0-9]+/[0-9]+/[0-9]+/[^/]+)/.+$ - [L,R=404]

But I get error message in all cases that page is not redirecting properly. Please have in mind that I want this just for the specific URL above, i don't care for the rest of the site.

Answer 1

It depends on where you put the rule for your rewrite. The examples you provided do work. But you have to put them before your last htaccess line.

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(\?.*)?$ $1$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

This will create the proper output, and can be tested through something like a htaccess tester

If you want it specifically for just that url you could resort to:

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^mysite/loginPage/$ mysite/loginPage? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

You could also specify an absolute redirect with

RewriteRule ^mysite/loginPage/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/mysite/loginPage? [R=301,L]

Answer 2

I want this just for the specific URL above

In that case, your rule should just match specifically this URI rather than .*/.* etc.

Have your rules like this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/mysite/loginPage)/$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php/$0 [L]

You don't really need QSA flag in last rule also.

Make sure to clear your browser cache before testing this change.