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Trailing Slashes for Magento CMS pages - 2 URLS - Duplicate content
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Hello,
Can anyone help me find a solution to Fixing and Creating Magento CMS pages to only use one URL and not two URLS?
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] -
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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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