Vanity URLs without trailing slashes on Apache

Question

The code below rewrites all URLs in the /profiles/ directory on our site from example.com/profiles/name/ to example.com/name/, but we\'d also like to r

Answer 1

By adding part of the code suggested by @jon-lin at How to access directory's index.php without a trailing slash AND not get 301 redirect (internally rewriting the trailing slash back in), we actually made this work:

# Vanity URLs

DirectorySlash Off

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /profiles/$1 [NC,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.*[^/])$ /$1/

The profile for Gucci on FASHION NET (located at /profiles/gucci/) can now be accessed at https://www.fashion.net/gucci -- with no trailing slash! Thank you, @jon-lin!!!!