I don't really know where to post this message but hopefully someone here can help me. I was wondering if there is an easy way for my server to take away the trailing slash?

Some search engines are referring to my site like: http://www.mysite.com/section/category/item/

But that page link doesn't exist (I'm using Joomla! as a CMS). So they are getting a 404 error.

I can setup redirects to redirect to:
http://www.mysite.com/section/category/item

Doing this, everything works fine but it is getting tedious to go through EVERY page and setup a redirect since I have a lot of pages. Is there some general command that I can add to the .htaccess file which will do it for me?

I've never dealt with Joomla, but it sounds like Apache thinks your files are directories. The DirectorySlash Directive might need to be turned off.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_dir.html

Worth a try

I'm a little confused as to how to make the change? I'm dealing with a shared hosting plan. Do I just make the change to the .htaccess file? Also, can it be generic... For example, no matter what url they type, it will remove the trailing slash?

I don't think this is a joomla thing.

On making the change, Apache will not append a / to the end of a url that someone was accessing
There is an example at the bottom of the page that should work in a .htaccess file

I saw that example but it shows as :

# see security warning below!
<Location /some/path>
DirectorySlash Off
SetHandler some-handler
</Location>

The problem is that /some/path is specific... I can do that with a redirect (which I have been doing). But... i want to set it up so that whatever path is entered that I can turn off the slash.

Also, what is SetHandler?

It's been awhile but I think just a / will take care of all subdirectories.

And what is the setHandler for?

I think that is optional in this case.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod...tml#sethandler

Using htaccess, this should help

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [L]

Originally Posted by mgraphic

Using htaccess, this should help

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [L]

Thanks for that but it didn't remove the "/" on the end.