trailing-slash-servers

See how different servers handle serving HTML files and trailing slashes.

The format follows https://github.com/slorber/trailing-slash-guide.

Check out my blog to learn more about trailing slashes! https://bjornlu.com/blog/trailing-slash-for-frameworks

website
├── file.html
│
├── folder
│   └── index.html
│
├── both.html
└── both
    └── index.html

Result

Server	Settings	Url	/file	/file/	/file.html	/folder	/folder/	/folder/index.html	/both	/both/	/both.html	/both/index.html
express		link	💢 404	💢 404	✅	➡️ /folder/	✅	✅	➡️ /both/	✅	✅	✅
express with HTML extensions		link	✅	💢 404	✅	➡️ /folder/	✅	✅	➡️ /both/	✅	✅	✅
sirv		link	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
http-server		link	✅	💢 404	✅	➡️ /folder/	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
deno (file-server)		link	💢 404	💢 404	✅	➡️ /folder/	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
python -m http.server		link	💢 404	💢 404	✅	➡️ /folder/	✅	✅	➡️ /both/	✅	✅	✅
httpd (apache)		link	💢 404	💢 404	✅	➡️ /folder/	✅	✅	➡️ /both/	✅	✅	✅
nginx		link	💢 404	💢 404	✅	➡️ /folder/	✅	✅	➡️ /both/	✅	✅	✅

Environments:

• Node: 18.20.3
• Deno: 1.46.3
• Python: 3.12.6
• Apache: 2.4.62
• Nginx: 1.27.1

Configuration

Here are some configurations I used for my own machine locally. Yours may be different.

httpd (apache)

/opt/homebrew/etc/httpd/httpd.conf:

ServerName http://localhost:8080

nginx

/opt/homebrew/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

http {
  server {
    listen       8081;
    server_name  localhost;

    location / {
      root   /Users/bjorn/Work/oss/trailing-slash-servers/website;
    }
  }
}

License

MIT