Thread: htaccess - cant get page to work without trailing slash

Trying to figure out why the page I'm creating works when I place a trailing slash but re-directs to a 404 when i take it off.

For example, this code 404's without trailing slash and works when it's like: example DOT com/city-test-page/
---note: when I take out the stuff relating to the query it works...aka- when i take out the "([A-Za-z0-9\-/+_\(\)]+)" and the "&query=$2"...the query obviously doesn't work but going to the page without the trailing slash works

Code:

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9\-+\(\)#%|_,]+-test-page)([A-Za-z0-9\-/+_\(\)]+)$ /file.php?city=$1&query=$2 [L]

This page, however, works without the trailing slash (just like i'd like the other one to do...the one above). Looks like: example DOT com/zipcode-houses/88888

Code:

RewriteRule ^zipcode-houses/([A-Za-z0-9\-+\(\)#%|_,]+)/?(\d+)?$ /directory/zip-houses.php?zip=$1&page=$2 [L]

I tried toying with it for quite a while but can't seem to make and progress.

Any thoughts?

May have found it, this seems to be working:

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9\-+\(\)#%|_,]+-test-page)(/.*)?$ /file.php?city=$1&query=$2 [L]