How can I prevent duplicate content between www.page.com/ and www.page.com

[onlineexpression]

SEOMoz's recent crawl showed me that I had an error for duplicate content and duplicate page titles.

This is a problem because it found the same page twice because of a '/' on the end of one url.

e.g. www.page.com/ vs. www.page.com

My question is do I need to be concerned about this. And is there anything I should put in my htaccess file to prevent this happening.

Thanks!
Karl

[onlineexpression]

Thanks a lot for your quick replys. I have it sorted now

[Catalyste]

Yes you should adress this problem. Put something like this in your .htaccess :

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

# REDIRECT to canonical url
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[Yanbo]

Hi there,

This should solve your problem

 <code>#removes trailing slash
         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^\.localhost$ [NC]
         RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=301,L]</code>

If you wish to redirect from non-trailing slash to trailing slash,

let me you know and I'll send you htaccess for that

Kind regards

Bojan