Apache Permanent Redirect Removes Slash From Path

Question

I'm using Apache 2.4, and I set up two virtual directories. One requires SSL, and the other one redirects to it.

If a user attempts to visit https://www.derp.com/derp without /derp existing, they correctly get a 404. But when a user visits http://www.derp.com/derp, Apache incorrectly redirects the user to https://www.derp.comderp, removing the slash between the path and the domain name.

I have no idea what would be causing this.

The following is the setup of my Virtual Host.

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName www.derp.com
    ServerAlias derp.com
    DocumentRoot "C:\Users\derp\Documents\Web Projects\derp"
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile "C:\Apache24\certs\cert.cer"
    SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:\Apache24\certs\key.key"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName www.derp.com
    ServerAlias derp.com
    Redirect permanent / https://www.derp.com/
</VirtualHost>

<Directory "C:\Users\derp\Documents\Web Projects\derp">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
    SSLRequireSSL
</Directory>

Why would Apache be behaving this way?

Bonus Question: Should redirects be handled in my virtual host definition, or should it be handled in the .htaccess file in the web site's physical directory?

Edit:

I'm starting a Laravel project, and by default the public folder does contain a .htaccess file, so here's that guy:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Edit Two:

I tried:

• adding a slash at the end of the DirectoryRoot path
• replacing the backslashes with forward slashes in the DirectoryRoot path
• replacing the backslashes with double backslashes in the DirectoryRoot path

I also removed the .htaccess file from the directory completely.

It redirects correctly when you go from http://www.derp.com to https://www.derp.com. It's just when you specify a path and attempt https that it removes the slash between the domain and the path.

Edit Three:

I also attempted the following suggestion:

Redirect permanent / https://www.derp.com/

Try

RedirectMatch permanent /(.*) https://www.derp.com/$1

or

RedirectMatch permanent (.*) https://www.derp.com/$1

... and instead of redirecting to https://www.derp.comderp, it instead does not redirect, attempts and gives a 404 for http://www.derp.com/derp, but using Apache's 404, instead of throwing a Not Found Exception, as Laravel does without configuration.

Answer 1

Your .htaccess for Laravel looks off. It seems like just a simple .htaccess for SEF/SEO friendly URLs I assume. So instead of it being this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Try this instead:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 2

L4.1 redirects the trailing slash at .htaccess not in the foundation application class as it did previously

# Redirect Trailing Slashes…
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

Just comment it out