trailing slashes

ingleslenobel · 2014-11-01 06:53:19

Hello,

The default seems to be to not have training slashes on article names if the option title is used, whereas the trailing slash does appear after categories and with /articles/. Can I ask is there any relatively painless way to enforce trailing slashes for articles as well, and for the canonicals in the metas? I tried messing with .htaccess but it didn’t make my install too happy :)

Or is it as simple as changing all “<txp:permlink />” to “<txp:permlink />/”?

Thank you

Last edited by ingleslenobel (2014-11-01 06:59:13)

ruud · 2014-11-02 09:41:30

Trailing slashes are for directories only. Why would you want them everywhere?

ingleslenobel · 2014-11-02 10:40:05

It’s for consistency – the rest of the site uses this and I need the trailing slash to be able to automatically call in an image on a script. Would you have any idea what I need to do to achieve this?

Thank you

ruud wrote #285367:

Trailing slashes are for directories only. Why would you want them everywhere?

ruud · 2014-11-02 10:57:18

The permlink trick you suggested above should work. TXP doesn’t mind the extra trailing slash as far as I can tell.

ingleslenobel · 2014-11-02 11:01:50

Veel bedankt :)

ingleslenobel · 2014-11-02 11:03:29

Although, yes, that displays the permalink with a trailing slash printed into the head, but any idea how to get textpattern to show and use the trailing slash for its internal links?

Last edited by ingleslenobel (2014-11-02 11:03:44)

ruud · 2014-11-02 12:15:38

Which internal links are you referring to?

ingleslenobel · 2014-11-02 12:39:57

article list, for example, but I think I’ve solved it by just adding the slash in the form too. Bit of a bodge but works…

Note if you do this remember to do the same for the forward/back buttons too, a breadcrumb if you have one and tweak the php in the rss/atom generators $permlink = $permlink . "/";

Thanks

Last edited by ingleslenobel (2014-11-02 14:26:27)

gaekwad · 2014-11-02 15:33:50

Aside: many browsers are stripping back the address bar so they don’t show the full URL by default; they will with a hover or click in some cases, but bear this in mind. Trust me, I’ve obsessed about URL formats before now, but I’ve moved on. I can absolutely understand why you want to control it, but life is short – don’t spend too long on this.

ingleslenobel · 2014-11-02 15:35:56

Yeah agreed – was a 10 minute fix in the end. easy peazy

gaekwad wrote #285380:

Aside: many browsers are stripping back the address bar so they don’t show the full URL by default; they will with a hover or click in some cases, but bear this in mind. Trust me, I’ve obsessed about URL formats before now, but I’ve moved on. I can absolutely understand why you want to control it, but life is short – don’t spend too long on this.

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