Many websites can be accessed with a FQDN (i.e., appending a dot to the TLD):
- https://www.ebay.com./
- https://www.google.com./
- https://www.reddit.com./
- https://stackoverflow.com./
- https://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Main_Page
Some sites can’t be accessed that way, but I can’t find an example right now.¹ ²
Is it possible, within a .htaccess
file, to redirect all variants with the dot suffix to the variants without?
Ideally with a "wildcard" rule, so that you don’t have to list the domains explicitly (for using it on different sites/domains without editing).
Example redirects:
http://example.com./
→
http://example.com/
http://example.com./foo
→
http://example.com/foo
http://sub.example.com./bar.html
→
http://sub.example.com/bar.html
¹ stackoverflow.com, when accessed over HTTP, used to give HTTP error 400: "Bad Request - Invalid Hostname".
² Wikipedia, when accessed over HTTPS (when it was still optional), used to give a certificate error: "The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.wikipedia.org
, wikipedia.org
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)