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    <p>So I'm trying to get mod_rewrite to do a few different things, and I'm not quite there with it. I'd like to:</p> <ol> <li>Remove file extensions from the URLs (in this case, .shtml)</li> <li><p>Rewrite certain URLs like so:</p> <pre><code>/dashboard -&gt; /ui/dashboard/index.shtml /dashboard/ -&gt; /ui/dashboard/index.shtml /dashboard/list -&gt; /ui/dashboard/list.shtml /dashboard/list/ -&gt; /ui/dashboard/list.shtml /workspace -&gt; /ui/workspace/index.shtml /workspace/ -&gt; /ui/workspace/index.shtml /account/manage -&gt; /ui/account/manage.shtml /account/manage/ -&gt; /ui/account/manage.shtml </code></pre></li> <li><p>Either add or remove a trailing slash ( I don't care which, as long as it's consistent)</p></li> </ol> <p>What I currently have gets me about 90% of the way there. In my .htaccess file, I've got the following:</p> <pre><code>DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html index.htm &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt; Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / # Get rid of the /ui/ in the URLs RewriteRule ^(account|workspace|dashboard)([a-zA-Z0-9\-_\.\/]+)?$ /ui/$1$2 [NC,L] # Add the trailing slash RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/|#(.*))$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [R=301,L] # Remove the shtml extension RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.shtml -f RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/$ $1\.shtml &lt;/IfModule&gt; </code></pre> <p>Now the issues I'm running into are twofold:</p> <p>First, if I try to access one of the index pages outlined in the directories listed in step 2 above, as long as I do it with a trailing slash, it's fine, but if I omit the trailing slash, the URL rewrites incorrectly (the page still loads, however). For example</p> <pre><code>/dashboard/ remains /dashboard/ in the address bar. /dashboard rewrites to /ui/dashboard/ in the address bar. </code></pre> <p>How can I get these index.shtml pages to keep the address bar consistent?</p> <p>Second, when I try to access a page other than the directory index in one of the rewritten directories, and I include a trailing slash, it gives me a 404 error. For instance:</p> <pre><code>/dashboard/list/ </code></pre> <p>throws the 404 error:</p> <pre><code>The requested URL /ui/dashboard/list.shtml/ was not found on this server. </code></pre> <p>Any help to get this working properly that you can offer is much appreciated.</p>
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