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  • JollyBoy
    JollyBoy last edited by Mar 8, 2012, 8:14 PM

    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 Mar 10, 2012, 4:04 AM Mar 10, 2012, 4:04 AM

      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 Mar 12, 2012, 3:14 PM Mar 9, 2012, 10:37 PM

        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 Mar 9, 2012, 8:50 PM Mar 9, 2012, 8:50 PM

          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 Mar 9, 2012, 8:41 PM Mar 9, 2012, 8:41 PM

            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 Mar 9, 2012, 7:49 PM Mar 9, 2012, 7:49 PM

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

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              • BailHotline
                BailHotline @JollyBoy last edited by Mar 9, 2012, 7:30 PM Mar 9, 2012, 7:30 PM

                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 Mar 9, 2012, 5:48 PM Mar 9, 2012, 5:48 PM

                  Nope. Still no trailing slashes being added.

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                  • BailHotline
                    BailHotline @JollyBoy last edited by Mar 9, 2012, 2:31 AM Mar 9, 2012, 2:31 AM

                    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 Mar 9, 2012, 12:43 AM Mar 9, 2012, 12:43 AM

                      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?

                      BailHotline JollyBoy 8 Replies Last reply Mar 10, 2012, 4:04 AM Reply Quote 0
                      • BailHotline
                        BailHotline last edited by Mar 8, 2012, 8:49 PM Mar 8, 2012, 8:49 PM

                        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!

                        JollyBoy 1 Reply Last reply Mar 9, 2012, 12:43 AM Reply Quote 0
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