seo friendly multilanguage with remove trailing slash on php apache -

i've been trying rid of apache's rewrite issues when try both removing trailing slash , seo friendly multilanguage page @ same time.

to more clarify, able use functions of apache rewrite rules great codes below

# remove .php extension rewritecond %{request_filename} !-f rewritecond %{request_filename} !-d rewriterule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [nc,l] rewriterule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [l,r=301] 

so achieve code ;

example.com/status.php 

turns

example.com/status  

that works great , code below assuming remove trailing slash every page ;

# remove trailing slash rewritecond %{request_filename} !-d rewritecond %{the_request} \s(.+?)/+[?\s] rewriterule ^(.+?)/$ /$1 [r=301,l] 

so achieve code ;

example.com/status/   

turns

example.com/status 

all till however, when try use multilanguage abuses reason tries remove trailing slash ;

rewriterule ^([en|fr]{2})/(.*)$ $2?lang=$1&%{query_string} [l,qsa] 

so need achieve ;

example.com/status?lang=fr 

it should turn below 404 error;

example.com/fr/status 

i've been seeking solution no luck

so need achieve ;

1. remove .php extension
2. remove trailing slash
3. use status?lang=fr should turn /fr/status
4. use status?lang=en should turn /status

thanks in advance

you can try :

rewriteengine on #remove trailing slashes rewritecond %{request_filename} !-d rewriterule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [r,l] # remove .php extension rewritecond %{request_filename} !-d rewritecond %{request_filename}\.php -f rewriterule ^([^\.]+)/?$ /$1.php [nc,l]  #rewriting /status?lang=fr rewritecond %{the_request} /status\?lang=([^\s]+) rewriterule ^ /%1/status? [ne,r,l] rewriterule ^([^/]+)/status/?$ /status?lang=$1 [nc,l]