SEO gone mad...

[Patrick Nommensen]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Andrew Hutchings <ahutchings at nginx.com>
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/ is a 301 to
> > 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


>
> Kind Regards
> --
> Andrew Hutchings (LinuxJedi)
> Senior Developer Advocate, NGINX Inc.
>
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