Trailing slash on URLs

[dgursh]

I just deployed a site to Amazon S3, however I noticed that all of the URLs end with a trailing slash like so:

example.com/dir/

On my local machine it does not have a trailing slash

example.com/dir

Why is it doing this? Is there anyway to fix this behavior? I believe Amazon S3 is treating the jigsaw folders like directories and then just assuming index.html is the file. Need to fix for SEO. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[dgursh]

I guess I can just turn --pretty=false

But then I'm stuck with .html

I'm confused why a trailing slash exists on Amazon S3, but not on localhost

[damiani]

This is S3's behavior; it hits example.com/dir and if no object exists there (it doesn't), it tries example.com/dir/index.html. In a Jigsaw site, that object does exist, and that's what it serves, using the URL example.com/dir/.

It should have no SEO effect, however. According to Google, at least:

http://example.com/foo/ (with trailing slash, conventionally a directory)
http://example.com/foo (without trailing slash, conventionally a file)
Google treats each URL above separately (and equally) regardless of whether it’s a file or a directory, or it contains a trailing slash or it doesn’t contain a trailing slash.

[GitHub-Mike]

Here is a (late) solution to the problem for apache users. Add the following lines to the .htaccess:

DirectorySlash Off

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.html -f
RewriteRule (.*) $1/index.html [L]

[chrisvidal]

digging up this thread

the following snipper is not working for my apache 2.
Google search console is giving lots of page with redirect issue because of this trailing slash.

any idea how to fix this?

DirectorySlash Off

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.html -f
RewriteRule (.*) $1/index.html [L]

[GitHub-Mike]

the following snipper is not working for my apache 2. Google search console is giving lots of page with redirect issue because of this trailing slash.

Does the snippet really not work?

The messages in the GSC can also have other reasons.

[chrisvidal]

this .htaccess snippet does not seem to be working for me,

when I type in the url domain.com/page it returns back to domain.com/page/

DirectorySlash Off

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.html -f
RewriteRule (.*) $1/index.html [L]

EDIT: wait a sec., I made a typo in the .htaccess filename there it was not taken into account.
now it seems to be working :) except for subs sub pages

when I type in the url domain.com/page/subpage it returns back to domain.com/page/subpage/

[GitHub-Mike]

when I type in the url domain.com/page/subpage it returns back to domain.com/page/subpage/

I have just tested this, but cannot confirm the behaviour.

"DirectorySlash Off" also applies to subdirectories. Unless there are special instructions for this subdirectory from this or another .htaccess file.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/htaccess.html#how

What happens if you place an .htaccess file with the content:

DirectorySlash Off

in this subdirectory?

[chrisvidal]

Now it's working, I haven't change anything.

I think I found the reason because of the structured directories and files, I had this:

/programs/martial-arts/index.blade.php <=
/programs/martial-arts/martial-arts-for-kids.blade.php
/programs/martial-arts/martial-arts-for-adults.blade.php

then I changed to

/programs/martial-arts.blade.php <=
/programs/martial-arts/martial-arts-for-kids.blade.php
/programs/martial-arts/martial-arts-for-adults.blade.php

and it works fine now for the intermediary folders

thanks