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        • JollyBoy
          JollyBoy last edited by

          My campaign analysis is predictably listing domain.com and domain.com/ as repeated content. I've searched and searched but cannot find a way to force a trailing slash on the end of the domain name unless there's a file or directory after it..

          Is there a way to accomplish this using .htaccess

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          • JollyBoy
            JollyBoy @JollyBoy last edited by

            I've gone with this .htaccess from your soulgorithm.com:

            Options +FollowSymlinks
            RewriteEngine on
            RewriteBase /
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.co.uk [NC]
            RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.)/$
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
            RewriteRule (.
            )/$ $1.php [L]

            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
            RewriteRule .* %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/ [R=301,L]

            and I'm now getting the results I'm after. I'm getting similar behaviour to you in Firefox and IE, which explains a lot. I really appreciate the length you've gone to to help me here, so big thank you!

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            • BailHotline
              BailHotline @JollyBoy last edited by

              Test Site: soulgorithm.com

              In the .htaccess file for this site:

              Options +FollowSymlinks
              RewriteEngine on
              RewriteBase /
              RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.soulgorithm.com [NC]
              RewriteRule (.*) http://soulgorithm.com/$1 [L,R=301]

              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.)/$
              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
              RewriteRule (.
              )/$ $1.html [L]

              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.)/$
              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
              RewriteRule (.
              )/$ $1.php [L]

              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f [OR]
              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
              RewriteRule .* %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/ [R=301,L]

              Which has the following effect:

              soulgorithm.com > soulgorithm.com/

              (slash is added, but only shows in IE and looks

              likes its being stripped by Firefox but page

              still loads fine)

              soulgorithm.com/ > soulgorithm.com/
                 
                  (loads fine, but only shows in IE and looks

              likes its being stripped by Firefox but page

              still loads fine)

              soulgorithm.com/test > soulgorithm.com/test/

              (loads fine, slash even shows in FF)

              soulgorithm.com/test/ > soulgorithm.com.com/test/

              (loads fine)

              soulgorithm.com/testdir > soulgorithm.com/testdir/

              (loads fine, slash even shows in FF)

              soulgorithm.com/testdir/ > soulgorithm.com.com/testdir/

              (loads fine, slash even shows in FF)

              Let me know if this is what you see. I feel likes its getting close to working.

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              • JollyBoy
                JollyBoy @JollyBoy last edited by

                Thanks for sticking with this. Rather than me share the domain, do you know of any example sites using your code (or similar) which add a trailing slash after the domain name? I'd like to rule out my browser stripping it out.

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                • BailHotline
                  BailHotline @JollyBoy last edited by

                  Man, my mind is blown right now. I'm not giving up and hopefully someone else can chime in on this discussion and shed some light on this issue.

                  The code provided should have worked. Let me look into it some more. Also, if you don't mind what is the actual domain name?

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                  • JollyBoy
                    JollyBoy @JollyBoy last edited by

                    That's right - nothing in there but the code you supplied.

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                    • BailHotline
                      BailHotline @JollyBoy last edited by

                      Is this the only thing you have in your htaccess file?

                      if not, I would remove everything in the file and only have what i posted above, and let me know if it works.

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                      • JollyBoy
                        JollyBoy @JollyBoy last edited by

                        Nope. Still no trailing slashes being added.

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                        • BailHotline
                          BailHotline @JollyBoy last edited by

                          Try just the following:

                          Let me know if this works for you.

                          RewriteEngine On
                          RewriteBase /
                          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
                          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
                          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
                          RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1/ [L,R=301]
                          
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                          • JollyBoy
                            JollyBoy @BailHotline last edited by

                            Thanks for the reply, but this looks like all the other examples I've found. My .htaccess file looks like this :

                            DirectoryIndex index.php

                            RewriteEngine On
                            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
                            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
                            RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

                            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
                            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.)/$
                            RewriteRule ^(.
                            )$ http://domain.co.uk/$1/ [L,R=301]

                            But I get the following redirects going on:

                            domain.co.uk > domain.co.uk (ie nothing happens)

                            domain.co.uk/ > domain.co.uk (ie slash is removed)

                            domain.co.uk/page2 > domain.co.uk/page2 (ie nothing happens, but page loads)

                            domain.co.uk/page2/ > Internal server error

                            Any ideas?

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                            • BailHotline
                              BailHotline last edited by

                              Hi Clive.

                              Yes, you can easily do this with an .htaccess file, here is the code:

                              RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

                              Just replace "domain.com" with your proper url for your site. This should be all that is needed.

                              Hope this helps!

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