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  • NeatIT
    NeatIT last edited by Aug 3, 2016, 11:39 AM

    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 Jul 18, 2020, 4:14 AM Jul 18, 2020, 4:14 AM

      #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 Aug 5, 2016, 1:21 PM Aug 5, 2016, 1:17 PM

        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 Aug 5, 2016, 5:06 AM Aug 5, 2016, 5:06 AM

          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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