Laravel: Apache alias for URLs with trailing slash - apache

Question

I have a Laravel website in directory /home/user/Documents/laravel-training.
I would like to visit my website from http://localhost/dev/,
so I set an alias in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf.
Here is my 000-default.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName foo.example.net
ServerAdmin foo#example.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /dev /home/user/Documents/laravel-training/public
<Directory /home/user/Documents/laravel-training/public/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I also added RewriteBase /dev to the beginning of /home/user/Documents/laravel-training/public/.htaccess.
Now, I can visit my website successfully in case the URL does not ends with a slash.
For example, if I add the following route:
Route::get('test', function() {
return view('welcome');
});
Then I can visit it from http://localhost/dev/test.
But if my URL is http://localhost/dev/test/, the server will incorrectly redirect my page to http://localhost/test, and causes a 404 Not Found error.
Not Found
The requested URL /test was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
In response to Stefano Ortisi's comment:
I did not change anything else in .htaccess. I just kept the default settings.
RewriteBase /dev
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

It is not an error that it redirects without the trailing slash.
In your public/.htaccess as you can see there is the following lines:
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
^^^ as the comment states that will redirect a url with a trailing slash if it is not a folder. If you remove that you will see it will not redirect you.