Textpattern CMS support forum
You are not logged in. Register | Login | Help
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
#1 2008-03-28 16:46:58
- alannie
- Member
- From: Minnesota, USA
- Registered: 2005-09-15
- Posts: 150
Trailing slash issue in Google - how to redirect?
Hello,
In the Google Analytics reports for one of my TXP installations, some pages are showing up as two separate pages, one with a trailing slash and one without.
Example:
/section/title
vs.
/section/title/
I think this may have happened because some links were mistakenly coded in with a trailing slash. I’ve since corrected this but the trailing slash URLs are still indexed in Google. Duplicate pages in Google’s index are bad, not to mention the messy analytics, so I’d like to address this with a 301 redirect from slash to non-slash.
Can anyone recommend how to do this in my .htaccess file? I already have a non-www to www redirect, and I can’t seem to get the two to play nice together. Here’s what I have for the www redirect:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]Offline
Re: Trailing slash issue in Google - how to redirect?
Perhaps something like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[^/]+/[^/]+/$
RewriteRule (.*)/ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]Offline
#3 2008-03-28 18:38:02
- alannie
- Member
- From: Minnesota, USA
- Registered: 2005-09-15
- Posts: 150
Re: Trailing slash issue in Google - how to redirect?
Worked like a charm, thank you Ruud!!
Offline
#4 2008-04-01 14:57:55
- alannie
- Member
- From: Minnesota, USA
- Registered: 2005-09-15
- Posts: 150
Re: Trailing slash issue in Google - how to redirect?
I just discovered an issue; these rules appear to cause a looping redirection when an agent is attempting to request a static sub-sub-directory. For example:
http://www.mydomain.com/folder/subfolder/redirects to …http://www.mydomain.com/folder/subfolderwhich the server then redirects back to …http://www.mydomain.com/folder/subfolder/which once again redirects to …http://www.mydomain.com/folder/subfolderand so on …
Any thoughts on how to prevent this?
Offline