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Forcing a trailing slash ("/") at the end of your website's URLs will prevent content/page duplications issue, especially for those who use permalinks.
For example, http://[your-domain]/xxx and http://[your-domain]/xxx/ are the same page with exactly same content.
But, search engine spiders/crawlers will treat those two pages as different pages and search engines hate content duplications.
You can force a trailing slash at the end of your URL with .htaccess mod_rewrite.
RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2/ [L,R=301]
In the case you want to exclude some requests like for PHP, HTML, or other static files files (Recommended):
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.(php|html?|jpg|gif|png|css|js)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2/ [L,R=301]
Posted : 21/04/2012 1:46 am
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About the / redirection.
I currently have this on my .htaccess# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPressWill i just add the rules you put on that link?
So it will look like this?# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.(php|html?|jpg|gif|png|css|js)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2/ [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
# END WordPressOr am i wrong?
I would suggest this:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.(php|html?|jpg|gif|png|css|js)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Posted : 21/04/2012 8:34 am