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  • Uber_
    Uber_ last edited by Jul 19, 2016, 5:47 AM

    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 Jul 31, 2016, 7:51 PM Jul 31, 2016, 7:51 PM

      Not Working

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      • BMullz
        BMullz last edited by Jul 26, 2016, 1:53 AM Jul 26, 2016, 1:53 AM

        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.

        NeatIT 1 Reply Last reply Jul 31, 2016, 7:51 PM Reply Quote 0
        • Uber_
          Uber_ @BMullz last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 11:00 AM Jul 20, 2016, 11:00 AM

          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 Jul 19, 2016, 5:50 PM Jul 19, 2016, 5:48 PM

            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
            
            Uber_ 1 Reply Last reply Jul 20, 2016, 11:00 AM Reply Quote 0
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