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jake williamson 207 posts 873 karma points

Jul 19, 2021 @ 01:28

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trailing slash rewrite rule for v8

hey out there,

we've a new v8 site going live tomorrow and i'm keen to get a trailing slash rewrite rule set up.

i remember in v7 this was a little bit of a risky one as it can really mess up the backoffice...

has anyone got an ultimate redirect for v8 that's rock solid for the trailing forward slash that they could post here so it can forever be the gospel according to seo?!?!

cheers,

jake

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Yakov Lebski 591 posts 2346 karma points

Jul 19, 2021 @ 02:26
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not sure what you need it, in umbracoSettings.config

in section <requestHandler>

add
```
<addTrailingSlash>false</addTrailingSlash>
```
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jake williamson 207 posts 873 karma points

Jul 19, 2021 @ 08:33
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hey yakov,

thanks for the reply ;)

i've just checked the docs for that setting as i've never quite understood it:

https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/reference/config/umbracosettings/#addtrailingslash
```
<requestHandler>
    
    <addTrailingSlash>true</addTrailingSlash>
</requestHandler>
```
As mentioned in the comment above, this will add a trailing slash to the url when

regardless of if i set it to true or false i can still access the page using the url with and without the trailing forward slash meaning both these urls work:

https://localhost:44377/search

https://localhost:44377/search/

the only difference is that in the backoffice, if the setting is set to false the url changes in the info tab:

so although the setting changes the url in the backoffice, it doesn't enforce it with a redirect on the front end...

confusing eh?!

cheers,

jake
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Alex Skrypnyk 6163 posts 24143 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 19, 2021 @ 22:37

Hi Jake

You can use this rewrite rule:

<rule name="Add trailing slash" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="(.*[^/{2,}])$" ignoreCase="true" />
          <conditions>
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/umbraco/" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/install/" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/([0-9]+).aspx" negate="true" />
            <add input="{URL}" pattern="^.*\.(asp|aspx|axd|asmx|css|js|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|mp3|htm)$" negate="true" ignoreCase="true" />
            <add input="{URL}" pattern="/Base" negate="true" />
            <add input="{URL}" pattern="cdv=1" negate="true" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="{R:1}/" />
        </rule>

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Yakov Lebski 591 posts 2346 karma points

Jul 19, 2021 @ 23:06
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change is not only in backooffice, it's change url provider to generate url with or without / at the end.

if you want redirect urls with "/" to url without yoou can add this redirrect rule, very important to do it together, owerwise site will generate links links with redirects
```
  <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>
```
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Tobias 14 posts 86 karma points

Apr 03, 2024 @ 08:34

This code ruins Umbraco Preview in backoffice (Version 12).

Here's a corrected version:

        <rule name="Remove trailing slash, except for Umbraco backoffice" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url="(.*)/$" ignoreCase="true" />
        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(umbraco/)" negate="true" />
            <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}" appendQueryString="true" />
    </rule>

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