'/' is giving problem in url routing

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
hi,

I’m new to CI and i am working on CI from past 5 months..

i am getting problem with '/' in url routing

the following routes are working fine on windows os.

$route['^archives/cu/cat_index.html$'] = "archives/cat_index";
$route['^archives/([A-Za-z_]+)/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z_]+).html$'] = "archives/cu";
$route['^archives/([A-Za-z_]+)/([A-Za-z]+)_index.html$'] = "archives/cu";
$route['^archives/([A-Za-z_]+)/([0-9]+)_index.html$'] = "archives/cu";

$route['^articles/([0-9]+),([0-9]+),([0-9_]+),([0-9]+),([0-9]+),([0-9]+).html$'] = "archives/articles_display";
$route['^articles/(daily)/([0-9]+),([0-9_]+),([0-9]+),([0-9]+),([0-9]+).html$'] = "archives/articles_display";
$route['^articles/(newsletter)/([0-9]+),([0-9_]+),([0-9]+),([0-9]+),([0-9]+).html$'] = "archives/articles_display";

but same routes are not working in linux os..
but if i put '/' at the end of url (ex.. www.xxx.com/index.html/) it is working

but for my page ranking i can't put '/' at the end.

please help........

[eluser]batteries[/eluser]
did you try removing the ^ and $ from the routes? i don't think they're needed.
Edit: are you using mod_rewrite at all?

also, use: \d+ instead of [0-9]+, it will shorten up those huge routes you got there.

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Thanks for reply...........

i tried by removing the ^ and $ from the routes, but there is no difference in the result....

i am using mod_rewrite. my .htaccess file contains the following content

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(index\.php|images|captcha|js|css|ads|uploads|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

[eluser]marcoss[/eluser]
Yes, the $ is not needed, but if that doesn't work you can try to add the slash to the controller so it gets triggered, that would be this 'archives/cu/' instead of this 'archives/cu'.

[eluser]batteries[/eluser]
try adding a "?" in:

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

to this

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]