Remove trailing slash Lighttpd url

Question

A weird request, but I really need this answered. Can you guys help me using re-write rules to remove the trailing slash from urls in Lighttpd.conf?

EG:

**A** www.example.com/page/
**B** www.example.com/page

I want url A to be forced into the semantics of url B.

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

What you are trying to do sounds wrong. The web-server does not handle the request urls that the browser sees. This is an application issue. Your web-application needs to present the urls in the form of www.example.com/page instead of www.example.com/page/ that it does now.

If you do not want to change the application but still want this desired behaviour, you may want to consider using a filtering proxy in front of lighty and then filtering all the returned links.

Answer 2

Not really to the point, but you might want to have the reverse effect...

Anyways, as far as lighttpd code goes, that would be something like this:

url.redirect = ( "/page/" => "/page" )
url.rewrite-once = ( "/page" => "/page/" )

but, since "/page" doesn't find a file and tries the directory "/page/" (and the rewrite seems to do nothing to hide that), that does produce a redirect-loop.

Then your real question would be: is it possible to tell lighttpd not to redirect on directories? That, unfortunately, I didn't find a way to do... but I didn't search in deep, in fact I do prefer URLs with trailing slashes (also visually)...