Thanks so much, ATP! It looks like writing the condition into .htaccess does the trick—at least for my local install. Is this because the commands located within the

BEGIN WordPress

END WordPress

comments only apply to URLs outside of the WP admin area?

Thanks again, ATP—that was a very thorough and helpful response!

Thanks for the replies, Donna, Martijn. I am running Yoast and considered adding the trailing slash, but:

-Most of the inbound links we have are to URLs with no slash

-The slash style seems a little dated in general-few sites use them these days.

I'd really love to just figure out how to solve the issue a little closer to the root.

I've searched around quite a bit for a solution here, but I can't find anything. I apologize if this is too technical for the forum.

I have a Wordpress site hosted on Nginx by WP Engine. Currently it resolves requests to URLs either with or without a trailing slash.

So, both of these URLs are functional:

<code>mysite.com/single-post</code>

and

<code>mysite.com/single-post/</code>

I would like to remove the trailing slash from all posts, forcing mysite.com/single-post/ to redirect to mysite.com/single-post. I created a redirect rule on the server:

^/(.*)/$ -> /$1

and this worked well for end-users, but rendered the admin panel inaccessible. Somewhere, Wordpress is adding a trailing slash back on to the URL mysite.com/wp-admin, resulting in a redirect loop. I can't see anything obvious in .htaccess.

Where is this rule adding a trailing slash to 'wp-admin' established?

Thanks very much