# Docker label \`forceslash=true\` doesn't seem to work

**URL:** <https://community.traefik.io/t/docker-label-forceslash-true-doesnt-seem-to-work/4185>\
**Category:** Traefik v2\
**Tags:** docker, middleware\
**Created:** [January 30, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/docker-label-forceslash-true-doesnt-seem-to-work/4185 "2020-01-30T21:38:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![janvda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/janvda/32/1526_2.png) [@janvda](https://community.traefik.io/u/janvda)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/docker-label-forceslash-true-doesnt-seem-to-work/4185/1 "2020-01-30T21:38:30Z")

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Here below a description of my problem:

### What did you do?

In chrome browser I entered `https://<my public IP address>/node-red`

### What did you expect to see?

After entering my traefik basic authentication credentials (I don't need to enter them always - they seem to be cached) I should see my node-red editor home screen.

Note that it is working fine when I enter the same url with a `/` at the end (= `https://<my public IP address>/node-red` )

As forceslash is set to true, i would expect to get exactly the same behaviour when entering the URL with or without a `/` at the end.

### What did you see instead?

blank screen.

### Output of `traefik version`: (_What version of Traefik are you using?_)

Version: 2.1.3  
Codename: cantal  
Go version: go1.13.6  
Built: 2020-01-21T17:30:29Z  
OS/Arch: linux/amd64

### What is your environment & configuration (arguments, toml, provider, platform, ...)?

Here below the relevant part of my docker-compose file (note that I have masked some fields like LAN\_HOSTNAME, PUBLIC\_HOSTNAME)

```auto
  traefik:
    image: traefik
    container_name: "traefik"
    command:
      - "--log.level=DEBUG"
      - "--api.insecure=true"
      - "--providers.docker=true"
      - "--providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false"
      - "--entrypoints.web.address=:80"
      - "--entrypoints.websecure.address=:443"
      #- "--entrypoints.nodered.address=:1880"
      #- "--entrypoints.grafana.address=:3000"
      - "--certificatesresolvers.mytlschallenge.acme.tlschallenge=true"
      # # - "--certificatesresolvers.mytlschallenge.acme.caserver=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory"
      - "--certificatesresolvers.mytlschallenge.acme.email=jXXXXXXXX@gmail.com"
      - "--certificatesresolvers.mytlschallenge.acme.storage=/letsencrypt/acme.json"
    ports:
      # The HTTP port
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
      #- "1880:1880"
      #- "3000:3000"
      # The Web UI (enabled by --api.insecure=true)
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro"
      - "./letsencrypt:/letsencrypt"
  node-red:
    build: node-red
    privileged: true
    volumes:
       - 'node-red-data:/data'
    #ports:
    # - "1880:1880"
    depends_on:
        - mqtt
    restart: always
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/Brussels
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
    # HTTP (LAN) connection
      - "traefik.http.routers.nodered_lan.rule=Host(`LAN_HOSTNAME`) && PathPrefix(`/node-red`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nodered_lan.entrypoints=web"
    # HTTPS (WAN) connection
      - "traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.rule=Host(`PUBLIC_HOSTNAME`) && PathPrefix(`/node-red`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.tls.certresolver=mytlschallenge"
    # middlewares
      - "traefik.http.routers.nodered_lan.middlewares=nodered_auth,strip_node_red_prefix"
      - "traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.middlewares=nodered_auth,strip_node_red_prefix"
      # To create user:password pair, it's possible to use this command:
      # echo $(htpasswd -nb user password) | sed -e s/\\$/\\$\\$/g
      - "traefik.http.middlewares.nodered_auth.basicauth.users=jan:$$aHASHED_PASSWORDpup/"
      - "traefik.http.middlewares.strip_node_red_prefix.stripprefix.prefixes=/node-red"
      - "traefik.http.middlewares.strip_node_red_prefix.stripprefix.forceslash=true"

```

Many thanks in advance for all support with this issue  
Jan.

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**Author:** ![janvda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/janvda/32/1526_2.png) [@janvda](https://community.traefik.io/u/janvda)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/docker-label-forceslash-true-doesnt-seem-to-work/4185/2 "2020-01-31T22:37:06Z")

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Before raising this forum topic I have created a github issue for this : [https://github.com/containous/traefik/issues/6254](https://github.com/containous/traefik/issues/6254)

This github is closed with following comment: `I don't reproduce, could you go to the community forum to get more help.`

So for me it is still an issue.  
Any support would be welcome.

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**Author:** ![ldez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/ldez/32/5_2.png) [@ldez](https://community.traefik.io/u/ldez)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/docker-label-forceslash-true-doesnt-seem-to-work/4185/3 "2020-02-01T16:41:53Z")

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Hello,

the stripPrefix middleware only modify the path of the request to node-red (`/node-red` -\> `/`), and I can guarantee that the forceSlash works as expected (the `/` is added).

The problem is the way that the node-red UI manage the path on the assets. Those elements are evaluate in the browser not during the calls.

The browser calls:  
`http://lan.localhost/vendor/jquery/css/base/jquery-ui.min.css`

instead of:  
`http://lan.localhost/node-red/vendor/jquery/css/base/jquery-ui.min.css`

so the way to achieve what you want:

```auto
version: "3.7"

services:

  traefik:
    image: traefik:v2.1.3
    command:
      - --log.level=DEBUG
      - --api.insecure=true
      - --providers.docker=true
      - --providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false
      - --entrypoints.web.address=:80
      - --entrypoints.websecure.address=:443
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 443:443
      # The Web UI (enabled by --api.insecure=true)
      - 8080:8080
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro

  node-red:
    image: nodered/node-red:1.0.3-2
    labels:
      traefik.enable: true

      # HTTP (LAN) connection
      traefik.http.routers.nodered_lan.rule: Host(`lan.localhost`) && PathPrefix(`/node-red`)
      traefik.http.routers.nodered_lan.entrypoints: web
      traefik.http.routers.nodered_lan.middlewares: nodered_redirect,nodered_auth,strip_node_red_prefix

      # HTTPS (WAN) connection
      traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.rule: Host(`wan.localhost`) && PathPrefix(`/node-red`)
      traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.entrypoints: websecure
      traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.middlewares: nodered_redirect,nodered_auth,strip_node_red_prefix
      traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.tls: true

      # middlewares
      traefik.http.middlewares.nodered_auth.basicauth.users: user:$$apr1$$q8eZFHjF$$Fvmkk//V6Btlaf2i/ju5n/ # user/password
      traefik.http.middlewares.strip_node_red_prefix.stripprefix.prefixes: /node-red
      traefik.http.middlewares.nodered_redirect.redirectregex.regex: ^(https?)://([^/]+)/node-red$$
      traefik.http.middlewares.nodered_redirect.redirectregex.replacement: $${1}://$${2}/node-red/

```

> **Bonus: WAN HTTP to HTTPS redirection**
>
> ```auto
> version: "3.7"
> 
> services:
> 
> traefik:
> image: traefik:v2.1.3
> command:
> - --log.level=INFO
> - --api.insecure=true
> - --providers.docker=true
> - --providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false
> - --entrypoints.web.address=:80
> - --entrypoints.websecure.address=:443
> ports:
> - 80:80
> - 443:443
> # The Web UI (enabled by --api.insecure=true)
> - 8080:8080
> volumes:
> - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
> labels:
> traefik.enable: true
> 
> # (WAN) redirect to HTTPS
> traefik.http.routers.wan_redirect_https.rule: Host(`wan.localhost`)
> traefik.http.routers.wan_redirect_https.entrypoints: web
> traefik.http.routers.wan_redirect_https.middlewares: redirect_https
> 
> traefik.http.middlewares.redirect_https.redirectScheme.scheme: https
> 
> node-red:
> image: nodered/node-red:1.0.3-2
> labels:
> traefik.enable: true
> 
> # HTTP (LAN) connection
> traefik.http.routers.nodered_lan.rule: Host(`lan.localhost`) && PathPrefix(`/node-red`)
> traefik.http.routers.nodered_lan.entrypoints: web
> traefik.http.routers.nodered_lan.middlewares: nodered_redirect,nodered_auth,strip_node_red_prefix
> 
> # HTTPS (WAN) connection
> traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.rule: Host(`wan.localhost`) && PathPrefix(`/node-red`)
> traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.entrypoints: websecure
> traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.middlewares: nodered_redirect,nodered_auth,strip_node_red_prefix
> traefik.http.routers.nodered_wan.tls: true
> 
> # middlewares
> traefik.http.middlewares.nodered_auth.basicauth.users: user:$$apr1$$q8eZFHjF$$Fvmkk//V6Btlaf2i/ju5n/ # user/password
> traefik.http.middlewares.strip_node_red_prefix.stripprefix.prefixes: /node-red
> traefik.http.middlewares.nodered_redirect.redirectregex.regex: ^(https?)://([^/]+)/node-red$$
> traefik.http.middlewares.nodered_redirect.redirectregex.replacement: $${1}://$${2}/node-red/
> 
> ```

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**Author:** ![janvda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/janvda/32/1526_2.png) [@janvda](https://community.traefik.io/u/janvda)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/docker-label-forceslash-true-doesnt-seem-to-work/4185/4 "2020-02-02T22:31:20Z")

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Thanks a lot it works !!