Django append trailing slash

Hi,

I have a Django (WSGI) application running under a subdirectory. The FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME is set to the directory name in settings.py:

1	FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = '/hour'

The location hour is aliased to my Django application in httpd.conf:

1	WSGIScriptAlias /hour /home/buradayiz/webapps/twitter_dev/hour.wsgi

The URL http://mydomain.com/hour/ works correctly. But the URL without the trailing slash (http://mydomain.com/hour) is problematic: It looks like the working directory of my scripts becomes one directory higher, and the relative paths in my template files do not work anymore.

I believe the solution should be in the Apache Rewrite rules because I cannot distinguish between the two URLs (with or without trailing slash) in Django in urls.py.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

asked Feb 12 '11 at 13:25

amacinho
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This series of rules will automatically redirect domains without a tailing slash to domains with a tailing slash,

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

You may have to adjust them slightly to work for your django app. They should be placed within the httpd.conf file.

answered Feb 12 '11 at 13:48

johns ♦♦
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edited Feb 12 '11 at 13:53

Thanks, but it doesn't work. Looks like httpd.conf is not the correct place for these rules. I get the following error

RewriteBase: only valid in per-directory config files

Any ideas?

(Feb 12 '11 at 14:00) amacinho

Silly me. I removed the RewriteBase line and now it works. In order to protect URIs with query parameters from being appended, I also added the following condition: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.+$ Thanks!

(Feb 12 '11 at 14:18) amacinho

Your welcome. Glad to hear it is working out. Django can be picky about URL redirecting and setting it in urls.py may be a better solution, but I have not tested it myself. A quick Google search for "django url redirect tailing slash" lead me to this great blog entry,

1	http://morethanseven.net/2009/02/10/append-slashes-urls-django.html

(Feb 12 '11 at 14:29) johns ♦♦

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