Dealing with Trailing Slashes in Statamic
As I recently relaunched this site I have been following Google's Webmaster Tools closely and noticed crawl errors where any entry with a trailing slash was returning a 404. This simple edit to your original Statamic .htaccess file will automatically redirect URLs with trailing slashes.
To be more specific about the issue. Google was trying to index 2 URLs
- http://johnhenry.ie/articles/eeuk-2013 - 200 Success
- http://johnhenry.ie/articles/eeuk-2013/ - 404 Not Found
Now Statamic automatically removes the trailing slash from URLs but doesn’t account for the fact that users or site creators may in fact add a slash in their templates or some third party might link to their pages inadvertently adding the slash.
The following amendment to the default htaccess fixes this
RewriteRule ^(_app) - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^(_config) - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^(_content) - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).yml$ - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).yaml$ - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.git+ - [F,L]
# Remove trailing slash and redirect URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php [QSA,L]
