diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 18505a8a8..187c15499 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - Add the correct host header when using an http proxy [THREESCALE-4178](https://issues.jboss.org/browse/THREESCALE-4178) [PR #1143](https://github.com/3scale/APIcast/pull/1143)
 - Normalize policy names capitalization [THREESCALE-4150](https://issues.jboss.org/browse/THREESCALE-4150) [PR #1154](https://github.com/3scale/APIcast/pull/1154)
 - Fix issues with non-alphanumeric variables in liquid [THREESCALE-3968](https://issues.jboss.org/browse/THREESCALE-3968) [PR #1158](https://github.com/3scale/APIcast/pull/1158)
+- Fix issues with double mapping rules [THREESCALE-3950](https://issues.jboss.org/browse/THREESCALE-3950) [PR #1159](https://github.com/3scale/APIcast/pull/1159)
+
 
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/gateway/src/apicast/mapping_rule.lua b/gateway/src/apicast/mapping_rule.lua
index dd829b59d..a9d99e6e1 100644
--- a/gateway/src/apicast/mapping_rule.lua
+++ b/gateway/src/apicast/mapping_rule.lua
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ local function hash_to_array(hash)
 end
 
 local function regexpify(pattern)
+  -- some urls in APIAP uses double / that it's a valid url, but ngx.var.uri
+  -- eliminates the duplicates, so mapping rule needs to remove the duplicates
+  -- ones.
+  pattern = re_gsub(pattern,[[\/\/+]], '/', 'oj')
+
   pattern = re_gsub(pattern, [[\?.*]], '', 'oj')
   -- dollar sign is escaped by another $, see https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module#ngxresub
   pattern = re_gsub(pattern, [[\{.+?\}]], [[([\w-.~%!$$&'()*+,;=@:]+)]], 'oj')
diff --git a/gateway/src/apicast/policy/soap/soap.lua b/gateway/src/apicast/policy/soap/soap.lua
index b85ef7afd..358d12145 100644
--- a/gateway/src/apicast/policy/soap/soap.lua
+++ b/gateway/src/apicast/policy/soap/soap.lua
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ local MappingRule = require('apicast.mapping_rule')
 local Usage = require('apicast.usage')
 local mapping_rules_matcher = require('apicast.mapping_rules_matcher')
 local MimeType = require('resty.mime')
+local resty_url = require 'resty.url'
 
 local policy = require('apicast.policy')
 
@@ -90,6 +91,13 @@ end
 function _M:rewrite(context)
   local soap_action_uri = extract_soap_uri()
 
+  -- If the soap_action_uri is a complete url, the mapping rule is only the
+  -- path, so parse to send only the path.
+  local url, err = resty_url.parse(soap_action_uri)
+  if not err then
+    soap_action_uri = url.path
+  end
+
   if soap_action_uri then
     local soap_usage = usage_from_matching_rules(
       soap_action_uri, self.mapping_rules)
diff --git a/spec/mapping_rule_spec.lua b/spec/mapping_rule_spec.lua
index e6a253724..9fd9be8fa 100644
--- a/spec/mapping_rule_spec.lua
+++ b/spec/mapping_rule_spec.lua
@@ -120,6 +120,29 @@ describe('mapping_rule', function()
       assert.is_true(mapping_rule:matches('GET', '/foo/a:b/bar'))
       assert.is_true(mapping_rule:matches('GET', "/foo/a%b/bar"))
     end)
+
+    it('double slashes are transformed correctly to a simple one', function()
+        local test_cases = {
+            ["/foo//bar"] = "/foo/bar",
+            ["/foo///bar"] = "/foo/bar",
+            ["/foo/ /bar"] = "/foo/ /bar",
+            ["/foo/bar///"] = "/foo/bar/",
+            ["///foo///bar///"] = "/foo/bar/",
+        }
+
+        for key, value in pairs(test_cases) do
+          local mapping_rule = MappingRule.from_proxy_rule({
+            http_method = 'GET',
+            pattern = key,
+            querystring_parameters = { },
+            metric_system_name = 'hits',
+            delta = 1
+          })
+
+          assert.is_true(mapping_rule:matches('GET', value), "Invalid key:" .. key)
+        end
+
+    end)
   end)
 
   describe('.any_method', function()
diff --git a/spec/policy/soap/soap_spec.lua b/spec/policy/soap/soap_spec.lua
index 09bf50a14..fddc667ff 100644
--- a/spec/policy/soap/soap_spec.lua
+++ b/spec/policy/soap/soap_spec.lua
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ describe('SOAP policy', function()
   describe('.rewrite', function()
     local context -- Context shared between policies
 
-    local full_url = "http://www.example.com:80/path/to/myfile.html?" ..
-        "key1=value1&key2=value2#SomewhereInTheDocument"
-
+    local base_url = "http://www.example.com:80"
+    local base_path = "/path/to/myfile.html?key1=value1&key2=value2#SomewhereInTheDocument"
+    local full_url = base_url .. base_path
     -- Define a config with 3 rules. Their patterns have values that allow us
     -- to easily associate them with a SOAP action receive via SOAPAction
     -- header or via Content-Type. The third one is used to tests matching of
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ describe('SOAP policy', function()
           delta = 20
         },
         {
-          pattern = full_url,
+          pattern = base_path,
           metric_system_name = 'hits',
           delta = 30
         },