Wordpress & trailing slash on domain name

[Jon-C]

Hi recently changed my site so it is based on Wordpress, got my preferred domain set in Google webmaster as

www.domian.co.uk

but since moving to wordpress my domain is now having a slash put on the end of it like

www.domain.co.uk/

Most of the links going to my homepage do not have the slash on the end so am I right in thinking I should get rid of the slash from my site so I have one consistent url?

If so any ideas how to banish the slash? Cannot seem to do it through the Wordpress general settings (despite preferred domain being set as www.domain.co.uk !)

Thanks

T

[Martin_Harris]

Are you on self hosted Wordpress or wordpress.com? Usually on self hosted you can edit the URL under general options.

[Jon-C]

Self hosted!

I have set it as www.domain.co.uk in the settings but for some reason it is still showing with the slash when I view the site

[Martin_Harris]

Does www.domain.co.uk redirect to www.domain.co.uk/ or are they treated as separate pages?

[Jon-C]

Good point!

Just checked and www.domain.co.uk redirects to www.domain.co.uk/

This a htaccess issue perhaps?

[Jon-C]

Think it is a HTAccess issue, just opened it up and I have the following, do I just strip out the trailing slash on

RewriteBase /newsite/ or do I have to strip out a few more?

Don't like messing with my hataccess so any help to point me in the right direction would be great!

# BEGIN WordPress
 <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /newsite/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /newsite/index.php [L]</ifmodule> 

# END WordPress

[TakeshiYoung]

Try this:

<code># BEGIN WordPress  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>  RewriteEngine  On  RewriteBase  /  RewriteRule  ^index\.php$ -  [L]  RewriteRule  (.+)/$ $1 [R=301,L]  RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_FILENAME}  !-f RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_FILENAME}  !-d RewriteRule  .  /index.php [L]  IfModule></code>

[Jon-C]

Takeshi, that was great thank you