No Extensions - .htaccess - Trailing Slash?

Righto, I have this in my .htaccess file:

# BEGIN NoExtensions
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
    RewriteRule (.*) $1.html [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
    RewriteRule (.*) $1.php
# END NoExtensions

Which works fine for URLs like mysite.com/contact, mysite.com/about, but not for URLs like mysite.com/contact/, mysite.com/about/ with a trailing slash. I'm really terrible with regular expressions, and I fail when trying to get it to recognize the trailing slash.

In doing so I realized by adding a trailing slash I could potentially block all my subdirectories from being accessed, so how can I whitelist the file (URLs) I want to rewrite?

(.*) would mean anything so it would be redirecting to contact/.php or .html...  lol.

(.*)/?$ should work.

I get a 500 Internal Server Error. Without the trailing slash still works fine though.

What exactly did you put in the file?  That shouldn't make it 500 error.

# BEGIN NoExtensions
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
    RewriteRule (.*)/?$ $1.html [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
    RewriteRule (.*)/?$ $1.php
# END NoExtensions

Hrmmm don't know why that's causing a 500 error.

Does the Apache error log say anything useful?

Hello

I have been looking for the very same solution and after trying your amendment in my htaccess file I got the 500 error. My logs state this:

Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.

Rather than resurrect a thread that's 2-1/2 years old, please start a new thread with a comprehensive description of your problem, including your .htaccess file.