/ thanks和/ thanks /之间的区别（http状态301）

Question

I have a website and one of the sub folders is /thanks.

So the complete URI for the (one) page would be

/thanks/index.php

Now when i type

/thanks/ i get a 200 return status and it picks up the (default) page index.php

however, when I type /thanks I get a 301 redirect to /thanks/

<address>Apache/2.2.8 (Linux/SUSE) Server at www.mydomain.net Port 80</address>

While the behaviour is correct, I would like the /thanks to also serve the /thanks/ folder directly, without the 301.

Is that possible?

By the way, it looks like apache is generating the 301 'automatically', I wonder: what page or source is actually called when you call /thanks in stead of /thanks/

Answer 1

This behavior is by design, cause url "/thanks" should actually refer to the file. Only for your convenience a web-server checks whether such file exists, if not then whether such directory exists, and if it is, it redirects the request to the correct destination "/thanks/".

It is actually a best practice to enforce/use trailing slash wherever possible, it is a canonical form, it reduces load on the web server (parsing one HTTP request instead of two - original and redirect), and improves your search engine optimization.

As for how to fix this, the question whether it needs fixing is still standing. If you fix this through say URL rewrite, your users will keep using the incorrect/bad-for-your-SEO URL. If you fix all the links at your site to use correct form and employ the default fix scheme - redirect - then the redirect would once redirect your users to the correct URL, and users will be using the correct version by default foreverafter (at least, in this session).