Thanks for all the replies - I've not been ignoring you, I'm just in a
different timezone!
On 10/14/2015 03:16 AM, Patrick Nommensen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Andrew Hutchings
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi!
On Tuesday 13 October 2015 08:59:02 steve wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a requirement from a customer that the terminal slash be
> rewritten when accessing the homepage - eg example.com/
<http://example.com/> is a 301 to
> example.com <http://example.com>
>
> I've tried a simple rewrite of ^/$ but that just loops.
>
> Any ideas?
As you have seen in other answers this will be pretty much
impossible to get
right. Have you considered writing some Javascript to do it client
side
instead? Something like this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10953792/change-url-in-browser-address-bar-without-reload-existing-page
At least then (in theory) you can have the illusion of hiding the
trailing
slash without risking breaking browser support for the site.
You can set a canonical URL if your intention is for SEO. This is the
standard practice.
https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization
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As can be seen from the google article, it's apparently a bad thing(tm)
to duplicate content for example.com/ and example.com. Apparently some
.htaccess tweak can do a 301 redirect from one to the other, but
absolutely nothing that has been suggested ( or others that allegedly
work - like redirecting ^/(.*)/ ) does actually work with nginx, which
is exactly what I expected to happen.
The CMS ( it's Magento but that doesn't really make a difference )
rewrites the URL to the value stored in the database anyway, but the
'problem' is that it doesn't redirect.
As has been suggested, this is a complete non-event, as every page
contains a canonical header entry anyway! Have suggested that client
engages other SEO 'consultants'.
Now need to wash the snake oil out of my head (:
Thanks for your help.
Steve
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http://www.greengecko.co.nz
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