how to remove multiple slashes in URI with 'PREG' or 'HTACCESS'
$url = 'http://www.abc.com/def/git//ss';$url = preg_replace('/([^:])(\/{2,})/', '$1/', $url);// output http://www.abc.com/def/git/ss$url = 'https://www.abc.com/def/git//ss';$url = preg_replace('/([^:])(\/{2,})/', '$1/', $url);// output https://www.abc.com/def/git/ss
using the plus symbol + in regex means the occurrence of one or more of the previous character. So we can add it in a preg_replace to replace the occurrence of one or more / by just one of them
$url = "site.com/edition/new///";$newUrl = preg_replace('/(\/+)/','/',$url);// now it should be replace with the correct single forward slashecho $newUrl
Simple, check this example :
$url ="http://portal.lojav1.local//Settings////messages";echo str_replace(':/','://', trim(preg_replace('/\/+/', '/', $url), '/'));output :
http://portal.lojav1.local/Settings/messages