Rewriting URLs using htaccess

Question

I am trying to re-write the URL of one file. I want thankyou.php to show up as /thank-you/. I have gotten this to work only partially.

I have this one rule in my htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule    ^thank-you/?$    thankyou.php    [NC,L]

I can get this to work for domain.com/thank-you but NOT for domain.com/thank-you/

For some reason the last slash is not working.

Can anyone help me out with this..??

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Yes, the relative links are broken.

Your relative links are broken because the browser sees the URL http://example.com/thank-you/, so all relative links will resolve to the base /thank-you/ (e.g. /thank-you/styles/mystyle.css).

Change all your links to absolute URLs or add a relative URI base to the header of your pages:

<base href="/" />

Answer 2

Question mark at the end of your rule says, that this last character is optional. Did you try to use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^thank-you\/$ thankyou.php [NC,L]