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Add trailing slash after removing .html extention
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 My website is non www ,it has wordpress in subdirectory and some static webpages in the root and other subdirectory 1. i want to remove .html extention from the webpages in the root and 
 the others static webpages in subdirectory.
 2. add slash at the end.
 3. 301 redirect from non slash to url with slash.so it should be http://ghadaalsaman.com/articles.html to http://ghadaalsaman.com/articles/ and http://ghadaalsaman.com/en/poem-list.html to http://ghadaalsaman.com/en/poem-list/ the below code 1. working with non slash at the end **2. **redirect 301 url with slash to non here's my .htaccess <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews RewriteEngine On 
 RewriteBase /</ifmodule>#removing trailing slash 
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301,L]#www to non 
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(([a-z0-9_]+.)?domain.com)$ [NC]
 RewriteRule .? http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]#html 
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]#index redirect 
 RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/
 RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://ghadaalsaman.com/ [R=301,L]
 RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .html
 RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]PS everything is ok with the wordpress , the problems with static pages only. Thanks in advanced 
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 Not Working 
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 Can you please try the above but delete: #removing trailing slash 
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301,L]Let me know if that works. 
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 i tried that code and not working <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c=""> 
 Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViewsRewriteEngine On 
 RewriteBase /</ifmodule>#removing trailing slash 
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301,L]#www to non 
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(([a-z0-9_]+.)?domain.com)$ [NC]
 RewriteRule .? http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]#html 
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]#index redirect 
 RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/
 RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://ghadaalsaman.com/ [R=301,L]
 RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .html
 RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]#moz 
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ghadaalsaman.com.com/$1/ [L,R=301]
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 Hi Uber_, Typically this is handled is by adding the following to your .htaccess file: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f <--looks like your version of this would also work fine. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php <---This is very optional. If there are any .php files you don't want to be rewritten add their .endpath here. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$ <----Looks like you have this, which determines which url doesn't have a trailing slash. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ghadaalsaman.com.com/$1/ [L,R=301] <----This would add a trailing slash and then redirect to the new URL. Highly recommend you add the last line because both of your / and non / ending urls are populating (which could cause duplicate content issues). This will also help with allocating proper page authority. Hope this helps, B
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