20290 2012-12-07 11:42:49 +0000 redirect from URLs with trailing slashes 2013-02-04 15:55:13 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified webplatform.org infrastructure unspecified PC All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 letmespellitoutforyou denis denis jonathan schepers team-webplatform-admin public-webplatform-bugs oldest_to_newest 79640 0 letmespellitoutforyou 2012-12-07 11:42:49 +0000 When you tell someone a URL, he often habitually adds a trailing slash as on most websites: http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/tutorials/device_orientation/ This results in an empty new-page UI. Suggest configuring server to redirect. 79662 1 frozenice 2012-12-07 19:22:10 +0000 Personally I think it's not an issue, I don't know anyone who does that. Nonetheless I guess it would be possible to set up in Apache. 79663 2 jonathan 2012-12-07 19:28:25 +0000 It is just a UX issue for those that add a trailing slash. I don't think it affects many people. Nonetheless it can be done in apache using some rules [1]. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3082825/mod-rewrite-remove-trailing-slash-only-one 80236 3 letmespellitoutforyou 2012-12-15 13:24:52 +0000 I assume there's also a marginal chance someone might casually navigate to "page/", see there's no content there, then create the page even though content already exists at "page". 80237 4 jonathan 2012-12-15 13:31:46 +0000 I don't see any reason to go through the trouble of making a page dynamically with the content that is supposed to be there when we can do a simple .htaccess rule to get people to the right page. 82528 5 jonathan 2013-02-04 15:16:11 +0000 *** Bug 20865 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 82530 6 jonathan 2013-02-04 15:17:51 +0000 In bug 20865 Doug pointed out what should be the proper rewrite rule to add to the .htaccess file. That is: RedirectMatch permanent ^/wiki/(.*)/$ /wiki/$1 82531 7 frozenice 2013-02-04 15:23:18 +0000 Nice tagging Garbee, had already forgotten about this one. :) Regex looks reasonable. I was just pondering if there are any (special) pages that require a trailing slash in certain cases, but couldn't think of any. Permanent is OK, too, as we don't want to have content under the trailing-slash-URL later anyways. So, LGTM. 82532 8 denis 2013-02-04 15:55:13 +0000 The redirect has been added to all 5 applications servers. Thanks Garbee!