website.com/folder redirects to www then to back non-www

Hi Brook, I am confused as to what you mean by following these instructions. I have a folder at the link that I am sending. How do I make it so that my website doesn’t redirect from a folder (without slash) to www then to non-www with a slash?

If my a user forgets a slash at the end shouldn’t the website automatically add one, without having to go to www then back to non-www?

So, the issue as it stands is that is the trailing slash not being included means apache looks for a file, and not a folder - when it finds the folder, it returns the content with the trailing slash, indicating a folder. I’d recommend either having a folder at the link you’re sending, or including the trailing slash in links as per this documentation http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

I really appreciate the help in advance – and thanks for enabling my comment above!

My first blush is that it’s related to the rewrite regex - and that there’s a case with the trailing / being there or not that is causing this. I’ll investigate and get back to you.

Hey Brook, I appreciate you helping me with this. I am running Apache. Can you point me to the config for the information that you need?

For domain record settings, i have an entry of @ pointing to my server ip address and an entry of www pointing to my server ip address

Here is what is in this file: sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/kensch.conf

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName kensch.com ServerAlias www.kensch.com ServerAdmin email@email.com(redacted) DocumentRoot /var/www/kensch.com ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost>

<Directory /var/www/kensch.com> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory>

Here is my …/www/kensch.com/.htaccess file

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

Hi Ken,

What web server software are you using to host your site? What does the config for your site look like?

Also let me mention my website is kensch.com/ratemypennstate

please try to go to kensch.com/ratemypennstate and watch it go to www and back to non-www. It’s really annoying.

kensch.com/ratemypennstate/ (with the slash at the end) works fine.

Just an update for clarity:

current situation

1. User enters http://website.com/folder
2. automatically redirects to http://www.website.com/folder (or /folder/? can’t tell, it happens too quick)
3. instantaneously redirects to http://website.com/folder/

desired situation

1. User enters http://website.com/folder
2. just goes to http://website.com/folder or http://website.com/folder/