All this rule does is to add a trailing / to your URLS if there is none and if there is no . in the URI, so https://example.org/test will be redirected to https://example.org/test/, but https://example.org/test.html will not be rewritten to https://example.org/test.html/ (but note: https://example.org/test.case/folder will also not be redirected to https://example.org/test.case/folder/ as it contains a . in the URI).

## Do the following if the URI does not end with `/` or  does not contain an `.`: 
## the . is relevant for file names like test.html, which should n 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/$|\.)

## Redirect it to the original URI with an added `/` and mark this as permanent:
RewriteRule (.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301]

Without validating, but using my experience in Apache rewriting, this configuration seems to:

  1. Match on the 'path' part of the URI (not the server, port, or query parameters), for example '/my/location/file.html'.
  2. Match if this part does not end on a '/' (forward-slash) character, -or- does not include a '.' (dot) character.
  3. Use the full path part of the URI and append a forward-slash to it.
  4. Send a HTTP 301 (permanent) redirect to direct the browser to this new URI.

This will result in the following test cases

/ -> / /test -> /test/ /my/resource -> /my/resource/ /my/resource.type -> /my/resource.type /edge.case/resource -> /edge.case/resource

So I think the rule has a purpose of adding slashes to resources that do not seem to be a file, but it seems to have an edge-case.

If not adding a slash to a resource with '.' (dot) character in the non-file part of the path the regular expression should be changed to:

# match paths which do not end with a slash, or do not resemble a file with an extension
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/$|\.[^/]+$)
# redirect permanently to the same uri with a slash
RewriteRule (.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301]