Canonicalization issue I cant work out
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Seo Moz have kindly brought to my attention some canonicalization issues with my site.
Firstly I've adjust http://capitalalist.com to 301 redirect to http://www.capitalalist.com via htaccess.
But the crawl has shown for every page in my site the problem below:
http://www.capitalalist.com/cirque-du-soir
http://www.capitalalist.com/cirque-du-soir/
It's just that last / that's causing the problem. But I can't seem to see anyone having the same issue before.
BTW im using wordpress if that makes a difference.
Can anyone elaborate on the issue? How would i adjust my htaccess file to redirect a request with a / on the end of it?
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks Jassy.
Exactly what i was looking for.
Good stuff!
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Hi Paul, try something like this, but there are many variations of these on the web.
Posted this just as the yoast post was coming on.
#add trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)([^/])$ http://www.capitalist.com/$1$2/ [R=301,L]add www for non www pages
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^capitalist.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.capitalist.com/$1 [L,R=301] -
The good folks at Yoast created a Wordpress plugin to deal with this very issue:
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