: How to remove .jsp extension and replace with forward Slash in htaccess? I want to remove the .jsp extension from my URL and replace it with a forward slash eg. example.com/xyz.jsp to example.com/xyz/

@Alves908

You will need to ensure that MultiViews is disabled before this will work correctly, as this will tend to conflict with your mod_rewrite directives. Add this in your .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews


(FollowSymLinks needs to be enabled for mod_rewrite to work, so just to be sure.)

Then, something like what you already have looks reasonable:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/.jsp -f
RewriteRule (.+)/$ .jsp [L]


I've made the trailing slash mandatory on the URL (otherwise you potentially have two URLs accessing the same content - duplicate content).

UPDATE: To redirect any requests to the .jsp URL to the canonical URL (ie. without the extension and with a trailing slash) then something like the following (similar to what you had in your question) would need to go before the directives above:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .jsps
RewriteRule (.+).jsp$ // [R=301,L]


This is only strictly necessary if the .jsp URLs had been indexed or externally linked to. If this is a new site then this step is optional.

It is more efficient to match what you can with the RewriteRule pattern (ie. (.+).jsp$), rather than have a catch-all regex here. The THE_REQUEST condition ensures that this only applies to initial requests and not rewritten requests - thus preventing a redirect loop.

So, in summary:

# Disable MultiViews
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On

# Remove file extension from URLs (external redirect)
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .jsps
RewriteRule (.+).jsp$ // [R=301,L]

# Internally rewrite extensionless URLs back to ".jsp"
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/.jsp -f
RewriteRule (.+)/$ .jsp [L]




DEBUGGING: To help with debugging the above, add the following directive below the RewriteEngine On directive and check the environment variables (MOD_REWRITE_THE_REQUEST and MOD_REWRITE_URL_PATH) in your server-side code:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (.*)
RewriteRule (.*) - [E=MOD_REWRITE_THE_REQUEST:%1,E=MOD_REWRITE_URL_PATH:]


What do these environment variables contain when you access a .jsp URL?

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