.htaccess - First slash is removed after domain when entering a webpage in the browser -

sometimes when hit address of webpage in browser, removes first slash after domain.

examples:

www.mywebsite.com/scripts/script_6.php -> trying load www.mywebsite.comscripts/script_6.php www.mywebsite.com/test.php -> trying load www.mywebsite.comtest.php

after entering again, loads page.

a .htaccess settings must wrong:

rewritebase / errordocument 404 http://www.mywebsite.com/oops.php errordocument 401 /notallowed.php rewriteengine on    # turn on rewriting engine  #gzip <ifmodule mod_deflate.c> addoutputfilterbytype deflate text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x- javascript application/javascript </ifmodule> #end gzip    rewritecond %{http_host} ^mywebsite\.com rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.com$1 [r=permanent,l]   directoryindex index6.php  rewriterule    ^termsofuse/?$    termsofuse.php    [nc,l]    # handle requests "adpolicy" rewriterule    ^privacy-policy/?$    privacy-policy.php    [nc,l]    # handle requests "adpolicy" rewriterule    ^newcampaign/?$    newcampaign.php    [nc,l]    # handle requests "newcampaign" rewriterule    ^howitworks/?$    howitworks3.php    [nc,l]    # handle requests "howitworks" rewriterule    ^signin/?$    login.php    [nc,l]    # handle requests "signin" rewriterule    ^reset_password/?$    reset_password.php    [nc,l]    # handle requests "register" rewriterule    ^error404/?$    oops2.php    [nc,l]    # handle requests "register" rewriterule    ^error/?$    oops2.php    [nc,l]    # handle requests "register" rewriterule    ^error401/?$    notallowed.php    [nc,l]    # handle requests "register" rewriterule    ^notallowed/?$    notallowed.php    [nc,l]    # handle requests "register"  #php_flag display_startup_errors on #php_flag display_errors on #php_flag html_errors on #php_flag  log_errors on #php_value error_log  php_errors.log  addtype text/x-component .htc  #ez lehet nem kell mert gzip van # compress text, html, javascript, css, , xml setoutputfilter deflate  addoutputfilterbytype deflate text/plain addoutputfilterbytype deflate text/html addoutputfilterbytype deflate text/xml addoutputfilterbytype deflate text/css addoutputfilterbytype deflate application/xml addoutputfilterbytype deflate application/xhtml+xml addoutputfilterbytype deflate application/rss+xml addoutputfilterbytype deflate application/javascript addoutputfilterbytype deflate application/x-javascript  # remove browser bugs browsermatch ^mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html browsermatch ^mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip browsermatch \bmsie !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html header append vary user-agent  #enable browser caching #<filesmatch ".(flv|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|ico|swf|js|css|pdf)$"> header set cache-control "max-age=2592000" header append cache-control "public" #</filesmatch>  #vary: accept-encoding header <ifmodule mod_headers.c>   <filesmatch "\.(js|css|xml|gz|html)$">     header append vary: accept-encoding   </filesmatch> </ifmodule>   # enable expirations <ifmodule mod_expires.c> expiresactive on  expiresbytype image/jpg "access 1 month" expiresbytype image/jpeg "access 1 month" expiresbytype image/gif "access 1 month" expiresbytype image/png "access 1 month" expiresbytype text/css "access 1 month" expiresbytype text/html "access 1 month" expiresbytype application/pdf "access 1 month" expiresbytype text/x-javascript "access 1 month" expiresbytype application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month" expiresbytype image/x-icon "access 1 year" expiresdefault "access 1 month" </ifmodule>   #enable compression <ifmodule mod_gzip.c> mod_gzip_on yes mod_gzip_dechunk yes mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$ mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$ mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.* mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.* mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.* mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^content-encoding:.*gzip.* </ifmodule>    <ifmodule mod_headers.c>     header set connection keep-alive </ifmodule> 

it due www enforcing rule. remember captured string in rewriterule doesn't have leasing /.

replace with:

rewritecond %{http_host} ^mywebsite\.com$ [nc] rewriterule ^ http://www.mywebsite.com%{request_uri} [r=301,l,ne] 

make sure test out in new browser avoid browser caching issues.