Redirecting not working properly in Firefox 9 (or any older version for that matter)

Question

How do I fix a redirect in Firefox so that it leads my site to another address but with a slash at the end of it?

This is my redirect in .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.mydomain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.test\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^testword$ "http\:\/\/outsidedomain\.com\/test\.mydomain\.com\/testword\/" [R=301,L]

It works fine in Chrome.

This is what it's suppose to do:

test.mydomain.com/testword should lead to outsidedomain.com/test.mydomain.com/testword/. Instead, in Firefox it leads to outsidedomain.com/test.mydomain.com/testword. Notice the lack of forward slash.

It has to have a slash at the end because otherwise the script from outsidedomain.com doesn't work properly.

UPDATE: I'm using http://nyanit.com to display a page at my blog so when a user writes mydomain.com/testword it leads to http://nyanit.com/mydomain.com/testword/. It show's all right in Chrome where the "nyanit" script is loaded only once but in Firefox displaying that "testword" page starts a redirection again so the page doesn't show but only the sript is showing multiple times.

Check it out here. Try both Chrome and Firefox to see what I mean.

Answer 1

This is a classic error, your rule only matches paths which literally match /testword. If you want to redirect everything that begins with /testword, remove the $:

RewriteRule ^testword "http\:\/\/outsidedomain\.com\/test\.mydomain\.com\/testword\/" [R=301,L]

If you want to match /testword and /testword/ and nothing else, make the slash optional by adding /?:

RewriteRule ^testword/?$ "http\:\/\/outsidedomain\.com\/test\.mydomain\.com\/testword\/" [R=301,L]

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It looks like that nyanit.com opens http://india.thefalljourney.com/cat/ in your browser. Perhaps you're viewing a cached page in Chromium which is why the redirection is not infinite. The problem is:

• http://india.thefalljourney.com/cat is redirected to http://nyanit.com/india.thefalljourney.com/cat/
• http://india.thefalljourney.com/cat/ is opened in a <iframe> by nyanit.com
• With the rewrite rule, http://india.thefalljourney.com/cat/ is rewritten again... infinite loop.

Suggestion: don't use an Apache redirect for this, but Javascript. If it's detected that the page is in a frame, do not redirect. Put the below JS code on http://india.thefalljourney.com/cat and remove the apache redirection code:

<script>
if (parent == self) {
    location.replace("http://nyanit.com/india.thefalljourney.com/cat/");
}
</script>