Redirect URL with trailing slash to canonical URL without trailing slash

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Hi,

I’ve recently ported my old website to Kirby and I’m now facing a few redirect/url issues.

My old URLs looked like this: http://domain.com/page/sub-page/
Kirby URLs looks like this (default): http://domain.com/page/sub-page

The new site which is running with Kirby does remove the trailing slash by default, but keeps the page with trailing slash accessible which leads to various problems:

  • all my Google entries do still refer to the old page with /
  • Disqus threads (which I did all map to the new URL structure) are now empty for urls with trailing slash

I think the easiest solution to fix this would be to automatically 301 redirect all URLs with trailing slash to the new URLs without trailing slash.

Now my problem: I’ve no clue how to do that (guess it would require some additional or adjusted htaccess rule). Anyone here who could help me out?

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Htaccess would be one solution. Another would be PHP.

If you don’t find any better solution, maybe you can try this plugin:

https://github.com/jenstornell/kirby-redirect-to-slash

It works the other way around, redirect from no slash to slash. If you have PHP skills maybe you can modify it to work the other way?

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OR you could use your other plugin @jenstornell

You could use this with php logic to redirect all pages with trailing slash to non slash. Correct?

4

Yeah it would work. Create an array dynamically. For more than a 100 pages I would still not recommend it as it might slow down all the pages on the site if it needs to build an array every time.

5

Also see this topic.

6

I’d prefer .htaccess over php, and adding redirects to the server configuration file over .htaccess, if you have access to it.

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7

Thanks, that worked now.

I tried that solution before, but only locally which ended redirecting:

sites/sitename/page/sub-page/
to
sites/page/sub-page

That issue isn’t happing on my “real” server/domain so it might have something to do with how my vhosts are configurated.

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I just made a plugin that probably fit your needs. If you already have a good solution for it, great. If not, this might help:

https://github.com/jenstornell/slash-redirect

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