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Thanks for all the replies - I've not been ignoring you, I'm just in
a different timezone!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/14/2015 03:16 AM, Patrick
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:09 AM,
Andrew Hutchings <span dir="ltr"><<a
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi!<br>
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On Tuesday 13 October 2015 08:59:02 steve wrote:<br>
> Hi folks,<br>
><br>
> I have a requirement from a customer that the
terminal slash be<br>
> rewritten when accessing the homepage - eg <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://example.com/"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">example.com/</a> is a
301 to<br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://example.com" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">example.com</a><br>
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> I've tried a simple rewrite of ^/$ but that just
loops.<br>
><br>
> Any ideas?<br>
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</span>As you have seen in other answers this will be
pretty much impossible to get<br>
right. Have you considered writing some Javascript to do
it client side<br>
instead? Something like this:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10953792/change-url-in-browser-address-bar-without-reload-existing-page"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10953792/change-url-in-browser-address-bar-without-reload-existing-page</a><br>
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At least then (in theory) you can have the illusion of
hiding the trailing<br>
slash without risking breaking browser support for the
site.<br>
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<div>You can set a canonical URL if your intention is for
SEO. This is the standard practice. </div>
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Senior Developer Advocate, NGINX Inc.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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'.<br>
<br>
Now need to wash the snake oil out of my head (:<br>
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Thanks for your help.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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