CMS Pages - Multiple URLS (/)

[ATP]

Hi guys, this type of question has been asked a few times before but I couldn't find something that told me what i need so apologies if its a tad repetitive.

I use Magento, and have several pages using its CMS. However, it produces 2 URLS for each page with a simple /.

For example,

website.com/hire
website.com/hire/

I know google treats this as 2 separate pages, which would be the better solution.

1. Write a URL re-write for every CMS page
RewriteRule ^hire$ http://www.website.com/hire/ [R=301,L] (Is this right?)

2. Write a general rewrite rule to always add the /
No idea where to begin with this

3. Add a Canonical tag to the page which i think is possible in magento by adding this to the Custom Design Layout XML option in the page CMS.

<action method="addLinkRel"></action> <rel>canonical</rel> <href>http://www.website.com/hire/</href>

This would make the /hire/ page self-reference and the /hire page reference the /hire/ page I think. Which one of these solutions is the best and any pointers with the coding would be grand.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

No need to go with canonicals. A bit of .htaccess code should do it. Pretty sure I got this from Stack Overflow in the past for a client with the same issue:

<code>RewriteCond%{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d RewriteRule^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]</code>

Give that a go and let me know how you get on.

Edit - Found the page I was looking for here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21417263/htaccess-add-remove-trailing-slash-from-url

Cheers,

Andy

[ATP]

Thanks Andy, it worked a charm and testing doesn't seem to show any errors elseware.

I used the 'enfore a trailing slash' version included in the same article you provided which was

RewriteCond%{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
RewriteRule^(.*[^/])$ /$1/[L,R=301]

For anybody else thats interested.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Perfect. Glad to hear it has helped

-Andy

[ATP]

Hmmm slight hic-cup

I just noticed the pages ending

.html

such as category and product pages are now also being given a /

Would you advise just swapping and using the remove / rule or is there an edit to this code so it only happens to page that dont end in .html

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Have a try of this:

<code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(html)$</code> 

I think this should work by ignoring anything with .html

Give it a go but if not, you may need to wait for someone else to come and confirm it

-Andy

[ATP]

Thanks Andy, i will try this on Tuesday after the bank holiday and see if i can get it working. Either way you have provided a workable solution for me so thanks very much!

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Very welcome and glad it has been of help

-Andy

[DirkC]

Hi,

Far from being an htacess expert, but you could also try this rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /+[^.]+$
RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

(off course I didn't invent it myself - it's coming from here: https://github.com/phanan/htaccess#force-trailing-slash )

I tried it here http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/ - and it seems to work if url is in the form
mydomain.com/article => mydomain.com/article/

If you check with mydomain.com/article.htm - it's not redirected

Could be an alternative if the rule proposed by Andy wouldn't work.

Rgds,

Dirk