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If you`re using some kind of CMS, usually its normal that each URL works with or without trailing slash, e.g. these URLs would be the same:
http://example.org/about
http://example.org/about/
Still Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines treat them as different urls and gives penalty as they are dupliate URLs with identical content.
You have two options – to add or to remove the trailing slash. After a bit of reading I chose to remove the slash from my celica site, because I`m using Drupal CMS that removes trailing slashes for new content and I don`t really want to hack the CMS plugins. To alter the URLs, you need to edit .htaccess file at the root directory of your website ( http://example.org/.htaccess )
Add this code to your .htaccess file to remove trailing slashes:
#get rid of trailing slashes
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?turbocelica\.lv$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://www.turbocelica.lv/$1 [R=301,L]
or use this code to ADD trailing slash to the end of each URL:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)([^/])$ http://example.org/$1$2/ [R=301,L]
Make sure you backup your .htaccess file before you edit. It`s easy to get “500 Internal server error” if you don`t know what you`re doing ;)
Read more here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
I’ve a link : subdomain.abc.com.vn/foulder/
I want to change to : subdomain.abc.com.vn/foulder/
The same with subdomain.abc.com.vn/foulder1/foulder2/ => subdomain.abc.com.vn/foulder1/foulder2
Can you help me with .htaccess file, please?
I’ve a link : subdomain.abc.com.vn/foulder/
I want to change to : subdomain.abc.com.vn/foulder
The same with subdomain.abc.com.vn/foulder1/foulder2/ => subdomain.abc.com.vn/foulder1/foulder2
Can you help me with .htaccess file, please?
try this:
#remove trailing slashes
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^\.yourdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
Thanks a lot. Everybody wants to add a slash, you happily gave the solution to remove the ending slash. Worked out great.
Everybody wants to add a slash, you happily gave the solution to remove the ending slash. Worked out great.
Lovely article.
I hate the slashes because of the way I code. I always add trailing slashes in my code therefore when users add their own trailing slash my site would look like: http://mysite.com/ but in actual fact it is http://mysite.com//
Anyway, great article. Thanks.
A good place to know about htaccess and urls is here : http://jannaud.fr/htaccess-clean-url-strip-slash, it gave me a good working solution about clean slug urls.
Add the trailing slash – just what I was looking for, thanks.
hi our blog is powered by wordpress and the url is http://www.pickaweb.co.uk/blog
our blog is not on the root domain. any idea how to remove the trailing slash?
Those examples doesnt work fine on my end.
I have this sample url:
domain.com/baby/ , when i type this directly in the url the url must be domain.com/baby only and it / (slash) is removed. here is my current htaccess :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|(.*)\.swf|css|js|uploads|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mumcentre/index.php?/$1 [QSA,L]
ErrorDocument 404 /
Will this work on my local?