Hosting environments that add a trailing back slash break page links

🐛 Bug Report

Hosting setups that add a trailing back slash to urls break all inter-site links on the page.

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Yes

To Reproduce

1. Create a new site using npx @docusaurus/init@next init test-site classic
2. Create two new sub folders in docs called a and b
3. Add attached file a.md to a folder, and b.md to b folder.
   • a.md.zip
   • b.md.zip
4. Replace sidebar.js with attached version.
   • sidebars.js.zip
5. run npm run build to generate the flat site.
6. Load the site in any browser by navigating directly to the url of page a: http://127.0.0.1:8080/docs/a/a
7. Click the link Link to page "b"

Expected behavior

Page b should load.

Actual Behavior

Page Not Found page.

Your Environment

• Docusaurus version used: 2.0.0-alpha.48
• Environment name and version (e.g. Chrome 78.0.3904.108, Node.js 10.17.0): Safari 13.0.5 (15608.5.11), Chrome 80.0.3987.132, Firefox 73.0.1
• Operating system and version (desktop or mobile): macOS 10.15.3 (19D76)

Reproducible Demo

(Paste the link to an example repo, including a siteConfig.js, and exact instructions to reproduce the issue.)

http://littlespex.com/docusaurus/docs/a/a

test-site.zip

[dotansimha]

My current way to workaround that:

1. Create a file called static/js/fix-location.js with:

if (window && window.location && window.location.pathname.endsWith('/') && window.location.pathname !== '/') {
  window.history.replaceState('', '', window.location.pathname.substr(0, window.location.pathname.length - 1))
}

1. Load this file as static JS file in docusaurus.config.js:

  scripts: [
    {
      src: '/js/fix-location.js',
      async: false,
      defer: false,
    },

[veeramarni]

I’m having the same issue, it breaks URL navigation due to HTTP proxy services. I use `Nginx in the docker, when I directly open a link without trailing slash, it redirects to HTTP domain with the port used in Nginx. Since we don’t run on 443 port it breaks the public link.

For example, if I try to open https://domain.com/a it redirects to http://domain.com:8080/a/ and it fails to load the page. But if you open https://domain.com/a/ it works fine. Does anyone have the same issue?