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Redirect URLs with a trailing slash to URLs with no trailing slash via htaccess rule with [QSA,L] – SEO

Recently I broke ties with WordPress and migrated all of my site’s content to my own custom-made CMS. All works great except for one thing. All previous links to my site’s blog posts have a trailing slash. Since none of my current URLs have a trailing slash, the previous links no longer work and my SEO is nearly non-existent. I’ve been attempting to find an htaccess rule that will redirect all trailing slash URLs to URLs with no trailing slash, but as of now, nothing works.

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    Use this redirect rule as your very first rule to remove trailing slash:

    RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [NE,R=301,L]
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    You don’t want to remove it 100%for SEO in WordPress.#

    But this will show you how to if you want that. WordPress “/” fixes. My WordPress Gist

    Can convert so it’s helpful
    Config File: nginx.conf
    …

    location  /mirror/foo/ {
        ...
        rewrite ^(.*[^/])$ $1/ permanent;
        ...
}

    …

    Description WordPress “/” PHP fixes
    Retrieve trailing slash string, if blog set for adding trailing slashes.

    Conditionally adds a trailing slash if the permalink structure has a trailing slash, strips the trailing slash if not. The string is passed through the ‘user_trailingslashit’ filter. Will remove trailing slash from string, if blog is not set to have them.

    Usage

    <?php user_trailingslashit( $string, $type_of_string ); ?>

    Parameters

    $string
(string) (false) URL with or without a trailing slash.
Default: None
$type_of_url
(string) (false) The type of URL being considered (e.g. single, category, etc) for use in the filter.
Default: None
Return Value (string)

    Adds/removes a trailing slash based on the permalink structure.
    codex.wordpress. /Function_Reference/user_trailingslashit

    2.
    If you want to add “/”

    <?php trailingslashit( $string ) ?>

    Examples

    <?php
$path = trailingslashit( '/home/julien/bin/dotfiles' ); 
?>

    $path will now contain: 

    /home/julien/bin/dotfiles/

    (Notice the trailing slash)
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/trailingslashit

    3.
    This is new
    The most important part of any test is the assertion. An assertion is a comparison between the value you expect to get from the system and the value that you actually get. The very simplest tests may consist of nothing but a single assertion. Example:

    public function test_trailingslashit_should_add_slash_when_none_is_present() {
    $this->assertSame( 'foo/', trailingslashit( 'foo' ) );
}

    The assertSame() method accepts two parameters: the expected value (in this case, the hardcoded string 'foo/'), and the actual value (the value returned by trailingslashit()).

    An annotated list of common assertions can be found below.
    https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/automated-testing/writing-phpunit-tests/#assertions

    Try these rules: (in www.example.com's server block) rewrite ^/$ http://example.com permanent break; rewrite ^/main(.*)$ http://example.com$1 permanent break; rewrite ^(.*)$ http://blog.example.com$1 permanent; Make sure you reload nginx.
    With this config:

    1. http://www.example.com/ *redirects to
    2. http://example.comt –
    3. http://example.com/something – Everything else redirects to
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