[Resolved] .htaccess redirect 301 issue

[bh-tech]

Hi,

I've found a bit of a strange issue happening with certain redirect 301 lines in our .htaccess.

Example:

redirect 301 /oldurl.php http://www.domain.com.au/newurl/

When I follow the redirect path, I'm seeing this:

http://www.domain.com.au/oldurl.php
 - 301 Redirect -
http://www.domain.com.au/oldurl.php/
 - 301 Redirect -
http://www.domain.com.au/newurl/

Somehow an extra redirect is being added that adds a trailing slash to the original url, and then continues on to the final destination.

So couple of points:

• I have seen nothing in my .htaccess that would trigger this behaviour
• It only adds the extra slash and redirect if the final destination URL ends with a slash

I'm at a loss as to what is going on - I certainly don't think it's normal.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Taylor

 

[NiteWave]

I did local test with

redirect 301 /oldurl.php /newurl/

in .htaccess. and confirmed the issue you reported.
also tested

redirect 301 /oldurl2 /newurl/

same result -- so not specific for .php files.

while under apache, one redirect only:
/oldurl.php ----> /newurl

the workaround is

redirect 301 /oldurl.php/ /newurl/

this results one redirect. and same as apache in this case.

 

[bh-tech]

Is this going to be fixed?

If I use your workaround, won't the redirect no longer work if the URL is

http://www.domain.com.au/oldurl.php

because it doesn't include a slash? Therefore the redirect rule wouldn't apply to it?

 

[NiteWave]

>Therefore the redirect rule wouldn't apply to it?
unfortunately, not apply, after test.

however, RedirectMatch works well by my test:
>

redirect 301 /oldurl.php http://www.domain.com.au/newurl/

==>

RedirectMatch 301 /oldurl.php/? http://www.domain.com.au/newurl/

>Is this going to be fixed?
I can't answer this question at the time being. But I think our dev will estimate it

 

[bh-tech]

Hi NiteWave,

Thanks for your replies and suggestions.

Hopefully the developer can give an estimate on when this will be fixed - I don't really want to have to go through and change all my redirect's to redirectmatch's

 

[mistwang]

We will have it fixed, should avoid using RedirectMatch when possible.

 

[mistwang]

Please try 4.2.21 release with command

/usr/local/lsws/admin/misc/lsup.sh -f -v 4.2.21

 

[bh-tech]

Please try 4.2.21 release with command
/usr/local/lsws/admin/misc/lsup.sh -f -v 4.2.21

Thanks - I've updated to 4.2.21 and the redirect issue seems to be resolved.

Thanks for your fast solution.

Cheers,
BH-Tech