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    • iamgreenminded
      iamgreenminded last edited by

      Hello,

      Can anyone help me find a solution to Fixing and Creating Magento CMS pages to only use one URL  and not two URLS?

      www.domain.com/testpage

      www.domain.com/testpage/

      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]

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      • iamgreenminded
        iamgreenminded last edited by

        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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        • iamgreenminded
          iamgreenminded @kwoolf last edited by

          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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          • kwoolf
            kwoolf @iamgreenminded last edited by

            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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            • iamgreenminded
              iamgreenminded last edited by

              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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              • kwoolf
                kwoolf last edited by

                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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