Trailing Slashes for Magento CMS pages - 2 URLS - Duplicate content

[iamgreenminded]

Hello,

Can anyone help me find a solution to Fixing and Creating Magento CMS pages to only use one URL  and not two URLS?

www.domain.com/testpage

www.domain.com/testpage/

I found a previous article that applies to my issue, which is using htaccess to redirect request for pages in magento 301 redirect to slash URL from the non-slash URL.  I dont understand the syntax fully in htaccess , but I used this code below.

This code below fixed the CMS page redirection but caused issues on other pages, like all my categories and products with this error:

"This webpage has a redirect loop

ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS"

Assuming you're running at domain root.  Change to working directory if needed.

RewriteBase /

# www check

If you're running in a subdirectory, then you'll need to add that in

to the redirected url (http://www.mydomain.com/subdirectory/$1

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Trailing slash check

Don't fix direct file links

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

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

Finally, forward everything to your front-controller (index.php)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [QSA,L]

[iamgreenminded]

301's are not difficult for me, but handling the code for a logic to re-route requests for "URL" to "URL/" is something I dont know how to do. I can manually 301 or rel canonical my CMS pages on Magento everytime, but that defeats the purpose or the automation in htaccess I am trying to get working.

thanks

[iamgreenminded]

Thank You Kevin.

This is almost the default Magento htaccess file(out of the box), I think I had a couple entries to fix a couple other issues, the code I just added that isnt working is in the middle of the htaccess, its commented starting with this: ** "## slash removal re-write done by ALEX MEADE for iamgreenminded.com**

uncomment these lines for CGI mode

make sure to specify the correct cgi php binary file name

it might be /cgi-bin/php-cgi

Action php5-cgi /cgi-bin/php5-cgi

AddHandler php5-cgi .php

############################################

GoDaddy specific options

Options -MultiViews

you might also need to add this line to php.ini

cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1

if it still doesn't work, rename php.ini to php5.ini

############################################

this line is specific for 1and1 hosting

#AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
#AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

############################################

default index file

DirectoryIndex index.php

############################################

adjust memory limit

php_value memory_limit 64M

php_value memory_limit 256M
php_value max_execution_time 18000

############################################

disable magic quotes for php request vars

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off

############################################

disable automatic session start

before autoload was initialized

php_flag session.auto_start off

############################################

enable resulting html compression

#php_flag zlib.output_compression on

###########################################

disable user agent verification to not break multiple image upload

php_flag suhosin.session.cryptua off

###########################################

turn off compatibility with PHP4 when dealing with objects

php_flag zend.ze1_compatibility_mode Off

<ifmodule mod_security.c="">###########################################

disable POST processing to not break multiple image upload</ifmodule>

SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off

############################################

enable apache served files compression

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip

Insert filter on all content

###SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

Insert filter on selected content types only

#AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript

Netscape 4.x has some problems...

#BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems

#BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip

MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine

#BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

Don't compress images

#SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary

Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content

#Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

############################################

make HTTPS env vars available for CGI mode

SSLOptions StdEnvVars

############################################

enable rewrites

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

############################################

slash removal re-write done by ALEX MEADE for iamgreenminded.com

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.)/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !.(gif|jpg|png|jpeg|css|js)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [L,R=301]
############################################

############################################

you can put here your magento root folder

path relative to web root

#RewriteBase /magento/

############################################

uncomment next line to enable light API calls processing

RewriteRule ^api/([a-z][0-9a-z_]+)/?$ api.php?type=$1 [QSA,L]

############################################

rewrite API2 calls to api.php (by now it is REST only)

RewriteRule ^api/rest api.php?type=rest [QSA,L]

############################################

workaround for HTTP authorization

in CGI environment

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

############################################

TRACE and TRACK HTTP methods disabled to prevent XSS attacks

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRAC[EK]
RewriteRule .* - [L,R=405]

############################################

redirect for mobile user agents

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mobiledirectoryhere/.$
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "android|blackberry|ipad|iphone|ipod|iemobile|opera mobile|palmos|webos|googlebot-mobile" [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(.)$ /mobiledirectoryhere/ [L,R=302]

############################################

always send 404 on missing files in these folders

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(media|skin|js)/

############################################

never rewrite for existing files, directories and links

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l

############################################

rewrite everything else to index.php

RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

############################################

Prevent character encoding issues from server overrides

If you still have problems, use the second line instead

AddDefaultCharset Off
#AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

############################################

Add default Expires header

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires

ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"

############################################

By default allow all access

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

###########################################

Deny access to release notes to prevent disclosure of the installed Magento version

<files release_notes.txt="">order allow,deny
deny from all</files>

############################################

If running in cluster environment, uncomment this

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags

#FileETag none

Permanent URL redirect - generated by www.rapidtables.com

Redirect 301 /thebirdword http://www.thebirdword.com

[kwoolf]

You probably have other redirects in your .htaccess and possibly in your website code. The order of your rewrites is also important. Publish your Apache config and I'll take a look.

FYI, there are better resources for technical issue than MOZ. Most here are not developers/IT specialists; we're more like SEO strategists and business managers.

[iamgreenminded]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !example.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.)/$
RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://domain.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

I have found both of the articles you linked here, nothing is working - any code I try gives me the same error on most of my pages:

"This webpage has a redirect loop

ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS"

Still need a fix for this

thanks

[kwoolf]

Yes, server redirects are necessary. Try these solutions to see which one works for you:

http://ralphvanderpauw.com/seo/how-to-301-redirect-a-trailing-slash-in-htaccess/

http://enarion.net/web/htaccess/trailing-slash/

You might want to consider moving to Nginx. You'll notice amazing speed and stability improvement with Nginx, Redis Session Cache, Memcached, OpCache, Ngx_pagespeed, and Magento Cache Storage Management. I can help much more with Nginx redirects and conf files--I gave up Apache years ago. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.