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        • Uber_
          Uber_ last edited by

          My website is non www ,it has wordpress in subdirectory and some static webpages in the root and other subdirectory

          1. i want to remove .html extention from the webpages in the root and
          the others static webpages in subdirectory.
          2. add slash at the end.
          3. 301 redirect from non slash to url with slash.

          so it should be

          http://ghadaalsaman.com/articles.html to http://ghadaalsaman.com/articles/

          and

          http://ghadaalsaman.com/en/poem-list.html to http://ghadaalsaman.com/en/poem-list/

          the below code

          1. working with non slash at the end

          **2. **redirect 301 url with slash to non

          here's my .htaccess

          <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

          RewriteEngine On
          RewriteBase /</ifmodule>

          #removing trailing slash
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     
          RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301,L]

          #www to non
          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(([a-z0-9_]+.)?domain.com)$ [NC]
          RewriteRule .? http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

          #html
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
          RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

          #index redirect
          RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/
          RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://ghadaalsaman.com/ [R=301,L]
          RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .html
          RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

          PS everything is ok with the wordpress , the problems with static pages only.

          Thanks in advanced

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          • NeatIT
            NeatIT @BMullz last edited by

            Not Working

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            • BMullz
              BMullz last edited by

              Can you please try the above but delete:

              #removing trailing slash
              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     
              RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301,L]

              Let me know if that works.

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              • Uber_
                Uber_ @BMullz last edited by

                i tried that code and not working

                <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c=""> 
                Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

                RewriteEngine On 
                RewriteBase /</ifmodule>

                #removing trailing slash
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     
                RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301,L]

                #www to non
                RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(([a-z0-9_]+.)?domain.com)$ [NC]
                RewriteRule .? http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

                #html
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
                RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

                #index redirect 
                RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/ 
                RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://ghadaalsaman.com/ [R=301,L]
                RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .html 
                RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

                #moz
                RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ghadaalsaman.com.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

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                • BMullz
                  BMullz last edited by

                  Hi Uber_,

                  Typically this is handled is by adding the following to your .htaccess file:

                  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f              <--looks like your version of this would also work fine.
                  
                  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php             <---This is very optional. If there are any .php files you don't want to be rewritten add their .endpath here.
                  
                  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$                   <----Looks like you have this, which determines which url doesn't have a trailing slash.
                  
                  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ghadaalsaman.com.com/$1/ [L,R=301]    <----This would add a trailing slash and then redirect to the new URL.
                  
                  Highly recommend you add the last line because both of your / and non / ending urls are populating (which could cause duplicate content issues). This will also help with allocating proper page authority.
                  
                  Hope this helps,
                  B
                  
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