How to remove mass trailing slashes(Nginx)

Question

I need to remove mass trailing slashes, now I have

rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 permanent;

So www.example.com/ becomes www.example.com.

It's good, but when I go to www.example.com/// (any amount of slashes) it's not redirecting. I need to make any amount of slashes at the end redirect to a page without a slash.

"So `www.example.com/` becomes `www.example.com`" - it's not your rule that is doing that; it's the browser! Most browsers simply "hide" the solitary slash after the domain name (at the start of the URL-path) - it is still present in the request. (You should be able to see in the network traffic, that there is no redirect here.) See also this question on the Webmasters stack: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/35643/is-trailing-slash-automagically-added-on-click-of-home-page-url-in-browser — MrWhite, Dec 27 '18 at 18:02

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 27 '18 at 10:00

Nginx normalizes the URI by removing consecutive occurrences of / before processing it with the rewrite and location directives. So your rule never sees the consecutive /s. See this document for details.

The original request is available as $request_uri and can be checked using an if block.

For example:

if ($request_uri ~ ^(.*/)/($|\?.*)) { return 301 $1$2; }

See this caution on the use of if.

How to remove mass trailing slashes(Nginx)

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