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        • NeatIT
          NeatIT last edited by

          i've to give some information about my website Environment

          1. i have static webpage in the root.

          2. Wordpress installed in sub-dictionary www.domain.com/blog/

          3. I have two .htaccess , one in the root and one in the wordpress
          folder.

          i want to

          • www to non on all URLs
          • Remove index.html from url
          • Remove all .html extension / Re-direct 301 to url
            without .html extension
          • Add trailing slash to the static webpages / Re-direct 301 from non-trailing slash
          • Force trailing slash to the Wordpress Webpages / Re-direct 301 from non-trailing slash

          Some examples

          domain.tld/index.html >> domain.tld/

          domain.tld/file.html >> domain.tld/file/

          domain.tld/file.html/ >> domain.tld/file/

          domain.tld/wordpress/post-name >> domain.tld/wordpress/post-name/

          My code in ROOT htaccess is

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

          RewriteEngine On
          RewriteBase /

          #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://domain.com/ [R=301,L]
          RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .html
          RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>

          The above code do

          1. redirect www to non-www
          2. Remove trailing slash at the end (if exists)
          3. Remove index.html
          4. Remove all .html
          5. Redirect 301 to filename but doesn't add trailing slash at the end

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          • roynguyen
            roynguyen last edited by

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

            hi anyone please help I use this code but now getting 404 error. please help.

            i also remove this code again but still same issue.

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            • NeatIT
              NeatIT @Tom-Anthony last edited by

              Hi Tom,

              thanks for your reply.

              i have some problems

              the above code doesn't

              1 - Add trailing slash to the static webpages / Re-direct 301 from non-trailing slash

              so it should be http://ghadaalsaman.com/articles/ instead of http://ghadaalsaman.com/articles

              2 - Force trailing slash to the Wordpress Webpages / Re-direct 301 from non-trailing slash

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              • Tom-Anthony
                Tom-Anthony last edited by

                Hey NeatIT!

                I see you have a working solution there. Did you have a specific question about the setup?

                I did notice that your setup cane sometimes result in chaining 301 redirects, which is one area for possible improvement.

                Let me know how we can help! 🙂

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