SEO gone mad...

[steve]

On 10/13/2015 10:28 AM, Fireye00 wrote:
> Howdy Steve,
>
>> I have a requirement from a customer that the terminal slash be
>> rewritten when accessing the homepage - eg example.com/ is a 301 to
>> example.com
>> I've tried a simple rewrite of ^/$ but that just loops.
> In the given example request "example.com", the path is going to be the same
> for both when the trailing slash is present and when it is not.  The request
> being sent to nginx from the client is identical in both situations, both
> will result in "GET / HTTP/1.1".
>
> If you want to confirm the behavior yourself, you can tcpdump the requests
> and observe for yourself that there are no differences.  Nginx can't
> distinguish between example.com and example.com/.
>
> I hope this helps to clarify things!
>
> Kevyn
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,262128,262130#msg-262130
>
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It's not me that wants this idiocy... it's the Snake Oil salesmen!

I'm apparently trying to do something that apache can, but so far, 
nothing has worked - everything just ends in a loop.

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