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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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