Trailing slash in url and virtual host - apache

Question

I have a laravel project on localserver and want it to work even when the trailing slash is added to the url. It is working fine when accessed with localhost url. The htaccess is as follows:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /LaravelProject/public/
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
Trying to access page like
http://localhost/LaravelProject/public/login
and
http://localhost/LaravelProject/public/login/
is working fine.
However I have also VirtualHost defined like this
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/LaravelProject/public"
ServerName LaravelProject.dev
ServerAlias www.LaravelProject.dev
ErrorLog "c:/wamp/logs/apache_error.log"
CustomLog "c:/wamp/logs/access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
Via url laravelproject.dev, I can access the document root and can see the "You have arrived." But when I try to access other url say laravelproject.dev/login, it gives me 500 Internal Server Error.
If I remove the RewriteBase from .htaccess and modify the RewriteRule as
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
then the urls laravelproject.dev/login and laravelproject.dev/login/ work fine.
If I do this, again the problem persists with localhost url with trailing slashes and the
url http://localhost/LaravelProject/public/login/ redirects to http://localhost/login.
I want to be able to use both localhost and virtualhost urls with and without trailing slashes and give the same result. As it seems, it is one or the other for me.

Answer 1

I don't think you need any of these lines in your .htaccess file. I have got mine set up like this on a couple of projects and it works perfectly fine:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>