Apache: Directories and trailing slashes
Apache does something interesting (yes, I still think it’s logical) when you’re accessing a directory that it’s serving: if you access it without a trailing slash, it’ll add one by default. This makes sense if you’re going after some static content or a folder index (or pretty much any sane usage) but it didn’t fit my use case of serving Plone using rewrite rules in a .htaccess file.
The issue that arises for myself with Plone is that my sites need to have their access customised through that .htaccess file and that’s been …