making apache and django add a trailing slash

Question

Hello.

My /train directory is aliased to a script in httpd.conf by: WSGIScriptAlias /train /some-path/../django.wsgi

And it works well, except for one problem. If a user goes to /train (with no trailing slash) it will not redirect him to /train/, but will just give him the right page. This is a problem because this way the relative links on this page lead to the wrong place when no trailing slash was used to access it.

How can this be worked out?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Set your urlconf to accept train/ as valid instead, then make train lead to a generic redirect to /train/.

Answer 2

I'm using something like this for redirecting /train to /train/, what I do is redirecting all the URL than doesn't end with / to /train/.

<Location "/train">
     Order deny,allow
     Allow from all
     RewriteEngine on
     RewriteRule  !^.*/$  /train/  [R]
</Location>

WSGIScriptAlias /train /some-path/../django.wsgi

Answer 3

If you just need to redirect from /train to /train/ and not from every subdirectory without a trailing slash, then there's a simpler solution using the RedirectMatch directive:

RedirectMatch ^/train$ /train/