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Dan Evans 629 posts 1016 karma points

Aug 26, 2015 @ 21:15
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Trailing slash / no slash - SEO

Using Umbraco 7

Umbraco 7
Google recommends that there should be a unique URL for each page or if not then a 301 redirect or rel="canonical" be used.

However Umbraco will serve the same page up on URLs with and without a trailing slash.

e.g.

www.mysite.com/about-us is the same as www.mysite.com/about-us/

There is a setting which will add the slash to all URLs generated by Umbraco but does not stop access via the page without the /.

The documentation advises how to create a canonical URL for a page:

https://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/code-snippets/razor-snippets/canonicalurl/

This however will create 2 different canonical URLs depending on whether the user is on the page with the / or without.

So I'm wondering:
1. Is there an easy solution to this.
2. Why is this solution not part of the core when it's quite a fundamental SEO issue.
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Robert Foster 459 posts 1820 karma points MVP 2x admin c-trib

Aug 27, 2015 @ 03:36

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Hi Dan, You can change the behaviour for the trailing slash by editing the /config/UmbracoSettings.config file - look for addTrailingSlash.

Also, if you're looking at SEO with Umbraco, I highly recommend the SEOChecker package - it's a commercial package, 99 Euro - but I think you'll find it's a great investment.

http://soetemansoftware.nl/seo-checker/features

EDIT: I should have read your comment more thoroughly - of course you already found that setting - anyways, take a look at SEO Checker - it handles a lot of the SEO issues, and also has built-in redirection for old/broken links and a range of other issues.

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mscommunities 40 posts 95 karma points

Aug 27, 2015 @ 05:37

Hi Dan, what you want to do is use the rewrite capabilities of the IIS Rewrite Module. Ruslan has made a great blog post on this: http://ruslany.net/2009/04/10-url-rewriting-tips-and-tricks/#trailing-slash

You can choose to either remove or add trailing slashes to all urls:

Remove trailing slash to urls

<rule name="Remove trailing slash" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)/$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="{R:1}" />
</rule>

Add trailing slash to urls

<rule name="Add trailing slash" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*[^/])$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="{R:1}/" />
</rule>

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Dan Evans 629 posts 1016 karma points

Aug 27, 2015 @ 06:53

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Thanks for the advice guys. I had found the rewrite module and SEO checker and will look at implementing them. We already use the URL Tracker.

Can URLRewriting.config not be used?

I guess my point is that I can see no reason why you would want to be able to access a page with and without a slash therefore why do we need to implement a workaround to stop it happening and is this not a bug in the addTrailingSlash config?

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Robert Foster 459 posts 1820 karma points MVP 2x admin c-trib

Aug 27, 2015 @ 07:00

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Hi Dan, Yes, you could use the URLRewriting.config module - it's just an alternative to the IIS Rewrite Module, that's all; either solution could be used.

If you think it's a valid issue, put it up on http://issues.umbraco.org - best way to get feedback on it with the Core team (you could also link the new issue here).

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Daniel Bardi 927 posts 2562 karma points

Aug 23, 2016 @ 17:19

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but here are UrlRewriting.config versions:

Add Trailing Slash

<add name="301Redirect_AddTrailingSlash"
  redirectMode="Permanent"
  redirect="Application"
  ignoreCase="true"
  rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
  virtualUrl="(.*[^/])$"
  destinationUrl="$1/" />

Remove Trailing Slash

<add name="301Redirect_RemoveTrailingSlash"
  redirectMode="Permanent"
  redirect="Application"
  ignoreCase="true"
  rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
  virtualUrl="(.*)/$"
  destinationUrl="$1" />

Hope this helps someone. (NOTE: Use either one or the other; not both!)

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Sagar 74 posts 275 karma points

May 06, 2017 @ 05:22

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unable to find "UrlRewriting.config"

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Tom 34 posts 154 karma points

Oct 03, 2017 @ 09:27

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This creates another problem since resources are not loaded if a trailing slash is added to its path (such as file.js/). Do you know of any workaround?

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Dan Evans 629 posts 1016 karma points

Aug 27, 2015 @ 07:07

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Thanks Robert. Only problem is I can't find a UrlRewriting.net rule that does this!

I will submit to the issue tracker.

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Dan Evans 629 posts 1016 karma points

Aug 27, 2015 @ 07:42

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Submitted - http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-7025

There's actually even more ways to access a page:

www.mysite.com/about-us www.mysite.com/about-us/ www.mysite.com/about-us.aspx www.mysite.com/1223 www.mysite.com/1223.aspx

So 5 ways to get to a single page.

Vote for it if you agree! It's in the recommendations:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359

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David Armitage 505 posts 2073 karma points

Jul 24, 2018 @ 05:46

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Great. Thanks for the help. Saved me some time figuring out writing the rewrite rule.

Kind Regards

David

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David Armitage 505 posts 2073 karma points

Jul 24, 2018 @ 06:13

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Hi Peeps,

I added a re-write rule and this worked for all my pages but this then introduced a bug loading Umbraco's back-end. It simple didn't load.

I tested removing the re-write rule again and the back-end was fine so its defo related.

Any ideas to how to get this re-write rule working but not effecting the back-end login.

Umbraco version 7.7.9 assembly: 1.0.6596.21099

Thanks in advanced!

Kind Regards

David

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Dave Woestenborghs 3504 posts 12133 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 24, 2018 @ 06:18

Hi David,

You probably need to add this rule before your rewrite rule that changes the url.

<rule name="WhiteList" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="(.*)" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny" trackAllCaptures="false">
            <add input="{URL}" pattern="^.*/(umbraco|umbraco_client|client|install|api|App_Plugins)/" ignoreCase="true" />
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*localhost.*" ignoreCase="true" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="None" />
        </rule>

This will stop the rewrite from happening on umbraco related urls.

Dave

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David Armitage 505 posts 2073 karma points

Jul 24, 2018 @ 06:23

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Absolute legend! That worked a treat.

Thanks for your help.

Kind Regards

David

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