adding trailing slash

[phpnewby1918]

Hello,

 

i've been making this project in my spare time, haven't looked at it for a while. But i have some spare time so i'm going to dip my toe again.

 

I have been using the following .htaccess rules

 

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d  
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f   
RewriteRule ^about/?$ about.php 
RewriteRule ^about/([A-Za-z\+\-]+)/?$ ./about.php?x=$1  

 

 

Which achieves what I wanted (initially). In that I wanted to be able to make these URLs:

www.example.com/about.php
www.example.com/about.php?x=jonathon

 

 

 

Become these URLs respectively:

www.example.com/about
www.example.com/about/jonathon

 

 

Which once i'd fiddled around and achieved it, I was pretty happy with. Obviosuly this meant some changes to my relative CSS paths, which was a bit fiddly, but I couldn't see a better way around it. Though if you know any good ideas, please let me know.

 

My scenario now is much as I enjoy that these URLs look prettier, there are 2 problems with them.

 

1 - if someone types

www.example.com/about/

for example, the css relative paths fail. So the paages aren't styled.

 

2 - Also in terms of seo it looks like duplicate content

 

Sooo, my next thought was to automatically append the trailing slash, so that

^about

becomes

^about/

and

^about/jonathon

becomes

^about/jonathon/

 

auomatically. Therefore stopping a duplicate content problem and also meaning that my css will render properly.

 

So far reading around the many many articles and examples i've seen before i've come up with this:

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost/www.example.co.uk/$1/ [L,R=301] 

 

 

Which works in that 'about' does indeed become 'about/' and 'about/jonathon' does becomes 'about/jonathon/'

 

Regrettably, I always get a object not found 404 error!

 

Which is not the desired effect, I am not particulary good, (in fact i'm not even remotely good at .htaccess) so can anyone help me out with this conundrum. I have been clearing my browser cache regulary as I tinker with it to make sure that it always using the most up to date .htaccess file.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Jonathon B)