Dispatcher caching extra / in html page

[sunily21159739]

Hi All,

Extra "/" is adding in the end of the page like : https://domainname/content/abc/dashboard.html/ and this is cached on dispatcher level because dispatcher is treating dashboard.html page as a directory.

On dispatcher side we can see this url used by some user "dashboard.html/content/dam/abc/us/project-folder/image/common/icon/favicon"

How can we restrict it, so that dispatcher will not treat this page as directory and "/" will not append in the url. Please suggest.

We are using AEM6.4 right now.

Thanks

[sherinregi]

Hi @sunily21159739 

One way i can think of is to add a rewrite that will remove the trailing slash from your URL's . You can use the below snippet and add the same in the apache rewrites.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [L,R=301]

Remove R=301 if you don't want to show the redirect 

You can also test the same in the below url

https://technicalseo.com/tools/htaccess/

Hope it helps!

[Mahedi_Sabuj · Accepted solution]

Hi @sunily21159739, 

The same problem is being discussed in here: https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/remove-trailing-slash-from... 

<IfModule disp_apache2.c>
   DirectorySlash Off
   SetHandler dispatcher-handler
</IfModule>

[Harwinder-singh]

@sunily21159739 , you need to Set DirectorySlash directive to off in Apache's mod_dir module.

Refer to the below link :

https://helpx.adobe.com/id_id/experience-manager/kb/403-forbidden-response-images-using-Dispatcher.h...

[basitsh]

One method to consider is adding a rewrite rule to eliminate the trailing slash from your URLs. You can utilize the following code snippet and incorporate it into the Apache rewrites:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [L,R=301]

If you prefer not to display the redirect, simply remove "R=301".

You can also test this approach using the provided URL: 

https://ebs.edu.pk/

I hope this proves helpful!