.htaccess rewrite rule for / - .htaccess

I have a website where if I go to the URL http://mysite.com/community it shows page not found. But, the URL http://mysite.com/community/ correctly displays the page. How can I set up a rewrite for that "/" after community?
This is my present .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^admin$ Admin/index.php?qstr=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?qstr=$1 [L]
These were the ones tried by me, but failed
First,
RewriteRule ^(.*)/community $1/community/ [L]
second,
RewriteRule /community /community/ [L]
All with different combinations of with and without [L].

From the Apache URL Rewrite Guide:
Trailing Slash Problem
Description:
Every webmaster can sing a song about the problem of the trailing slash on URLs referencing directories. If they are missing, the server dumps an error, because if you say /~quux/foo instead of /~quux/foo/ then the server searches for a file named foo. And because this file is a directory it complains. Actually it tries to fix it itself in most of the cases, but sometimes this mechanism need to be emulated by you. For instance after you have done a lot of complicated URL rewritings to CGI scripts etc.
Solution:
The solution to this subtle problem is to let the server add the trailing slash automatically. To do this correctly we have to use an external redirect, so the browser correctly requests subsequent images etc. If we only did a internal rewrite, this would only work for the directory page, but would go wrong when any images are included into this page with relative URLs, because the browser would request an in-lined object. For instance, a request for image.gif in /~quux/foo/index.html would become /~quux/image.gif without the external redirect!
So, to do this trick we write:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /~quux/
RewriteRule ^foo$ foo/ [R]
The crazy and lazy can even do the following in the top-level .htaccess file of their homedir. But notice that this creates some processing overhead.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /~quux/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ $1/ [R]

Well, after trying out all the above solutions as well as some of my own, I finally solved this. I'm definitely sure that this is NOT a complete solution but it sure solved it for the time being.
Solution: Just created an empty directory named "community" in the root folder. That's it!
But I'm still on the lookout for the actual solution to this.

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I need to .htaccess redirect my subfolder to the root folder, except two folders

The subfolder i want to redirect to the root folder is www.example.com/subfolder
So I need to redirect everything in that subfolder to the url adress https://www.example.com except for these two folders (which are placed in the subfolder): www.example.com/subfolder/folder1 and www.example.com/subfolder/folder2
I spent like 4 hours trying to find the exact code but I could not solve that. Nothing worked for me.
I've tried many codes, but nothing worked for me. For example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/subfolder/folder1/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/subfolder/folder2/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
and
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/subfolder/folder1/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/subfolder/folder2/
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/subfolder/ [R=301,QSA,L]
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com [R]
Could someone help me with that?
I'd prefer to place the .htaccess file in the subfolder.
Thank you so much.
I'd say that your first attempt looks pretty good. Just make a slight modification since you say you want to redirect to the root path, not something inside the root path:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/subfolder/folder1/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/subfolder/folder2/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ / [R=301,QSD,L]
Since you want to use a distributed configuration file (as opposed to the preferred central configuration for the http host) that rule is meant to be used inside a ".htaccess" file inside the "subfolder".
It is a good idea to start out using a R=302 temporary redirection and to only change that to a R=301 permanent redirection once everything works as intended. Also you need to make sure that you always test using a fresh anonymous browser window to prevent client side caching effects.
And you also need to make sure that such distributed configuration files are considered at all by the http server for that location (see the documentation of the AllowOverride directive).

htacces - need to fix broken links coming from other sites to mine

I am having an issue where Google Webmaster Tools is reporting a ton of 404 links to my site which are coming from ask.com.
I have tried to get ask.com to fix their side but of course they are not, so now I am stuck with over 11k of bad links to my site which I am suspecting is effecting my ranks right now.
Anyways I have a possible way to 301 them, but not sure how to do it with .htaccess.
Here is the bad link pointing to my site
http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/fere-film/feverous/about.php
It should be
http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/fere-film/feverous/
Besides the about.php there are other variations of endings as well, I basically need to be able to remove the ending.
Problem is that the URL after /sentence-examples/ can change. The beginning is always:
http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/
So basically:
http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/<-keep but can change->/<-keep but can change->/<-remove this->
This .htaccess should be placed on the folder before sentence-examples:
RewriteEngine on
# Redirect /sentence-examples/anything/anything/remove to /sentence-examples/anything/anything/
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+(sentence-examples/[^/]+/[^/]+)/.* [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/? [R=302,PT,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.*)$ /sentence-examples/examplesentence.php?havethis=$1&word=$2 [L]
Change 302 to 301 once you confirm it's working as expected.
If you have a CMS installed you might need a different rule to work along with it without conflicting.
Keep in mind that if you had previously tried different redirects using 301 aka permanent redirect its recommended that you use a different browser to test this rule to avoid the caching.
This is possibly quick and dirty but I've done a simple test on localhost and here just to make sure it works.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^sentence-examples/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)\.php http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/$1/$2/ [R=301,L]
You can see that I've added wildcard groups (.*) to the RewriteRule so that we can pick up the elements of the URL that we need to aid in proper redirection i.e. $1 and $2. You can also use the third one ($3) to get which destinations are being targeted alot for your SEO needs.
NB: The rule above assumes that that the redirected URL will always be from a .php target and to ensure that you can redirect regardless of whatever comes after the 3rd URL segment replace the RewriteRule with this
RewriteRule ^sentence-examples/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/$1/$2/ [R=301,L]

Trying to stop urls such as mydomain.com/index.php/garbage-after-slash

I know very little about .htaccess files and mod-rewrite rules. Looking at my statcounter information today, I noticed that a visitor to my site entered a url as follows:
http://mywebsite.com/index.php/contact-us
Since there is no such folder or file on the website and no broken links on the site, I'm assuming this was a penetration attempt. What was displayed to the visitor was the output of the index.php file, but without benefit of the associated CSS layout.
I need to create a rewrite rule that will either remove the information after index.php (or any .php file), or perhaps more appropriately, insert a question mark (after the .php filename), so that any following garbage will be treated like a parameter (and will be gracefully ignored if no parameters are required).
Thank you for any assistance.
If you're only expecting real directories and real files that do exist, then you can add this to an .htaccess file. What it does is it takes a non-existent file or directory request and gives the user the index.php page with the original request as a query string. [QSA] appends any existing query string.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?$1 [PT,QSA]
I found a solution, using information provided by AbsoluteZero as well as other threads that popped up on the right side of the screen as the solution came closer.
Here's the code that worked for me...
Options -Multiviews -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
DirectorySlash Off
# remove trailing slash
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(\?.*)?$ $1$2 [R=301,L]
# translate PATH_INFO information into a parameter
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php(\/)(.*) $1.php?$3 [R=301,L]
# rewrite /dir/file?query to /dir/file.php?query
RewriteRule ^([\w\/-]+)(\?.*)?$ $1.php$2 [L,T=application/x-httpd-php]
I got the removal of trailing slash from another post on StackOverflow. However, even after removing the trailing slash, the rewrite rule did not account for someone appending what looks to be valid information after the .php file
(For example: mysite.com/index.php/somethingelse)
My goal was to either remove the "/somethingelse", or render it harmless. The PATH_INFO rule locates a "/" after the .php file, and turns everything else from that point forward into a query string (which will usually be ignored by the PHP file).

htaccess rewrite showing redundant root folder

I've searched but haven't found a solution to this exact problem.
I have a website domain 'mainwebsite.com' and several other top-level-domains managed in the htaccess. The issue I'm having is with 'alternatedomain.com' and subdirectories.
#alternatedomains
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} alternatedomain.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/alternatedomain/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ alternatedomain/$1 [L]
This works fine, alternatedomain.com happily serves up mainwebsite.com/alternatedomain .
The problem is when I have access any folder like
alternatedomain.com/folder
, the URL in the title bar changes to
alternatedomain.com/alternatedomain/folder/
and it's driving me crazy. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong!
EDIT: It only happens when I try access alternate.com/folder, and not when there is a suffix /, so alternate.com/folder/ works fine, without the redundant folder name
Your help is most appreciated!
This is because mod_dir (that adds the /) does not know the url is rewritten.
You could just disable DirectorySlash with
DirectorySlash Off
This will however make requests to alternatedomain.com/folder result in a 404 not found. You can fix this with some rewriterule though. So the complete solution would be something like:
DirectorySlash Off
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$0 -d
RewriteRule ^alternatedomain/(.+[^/])$ /$1/ [R,L]

Change Displayed URL Structure using mod_rewrite NOT Working

I need to change the structure of the displayed client-side URL. I'm not too skilled using regex and coding for the .htaccess file. Basically, I have a structure that looks something like:
http://www.example.com/catalog/index.php?cat=lt&sec=lt1-1&id=nmlt10.
I would like this to be displayed in the address bar as:
http://www.example.com/catalog/lt/lt1-1/nmlt10.
This is what I came up with, but it has had no effect:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\$ /catalog/index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [L]
I tested and removed any other rules in the .htaccess file to ensure nothing was being overwritten. I'm on a shared hosting apache server, and know that mod_rewrite is enabled, because I use it to rewrite non-www to www urls. I don't receive and 500 error messages, I just do not notice any change at all. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here, so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
Finally found a solution that worked:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
Appreciate LazyOne's response to get me on the right track; however, when using:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
I wasn't able to following links that were already placed on the site, it treated different directories as the variables, for example, when browsing to an image or file, say:
folder/folder/image.png
It would grab "folder" - "folder" - and "image" as the variables. I can see why that was happening, if anyone has a different solution or an explanation, please let me know, I'm always willing to learn.
Since your .htaccess is in website root folder, then you should use thus rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^catalog/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /catalog/index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
If you place it in .htaccess in /catalog/ folder, then you can remove catalog from it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
I have tested rule before posting -- works fine for me.
This rule (same as above) will check if URL is a file or folder and will only rewrite if it is not:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]

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