Mod_rewrite help needed

Discussion in 'Apache' started by Jim_Westergren, Jan 24, 2006.

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    I need a line in my .htaccess which would redirect all URLs that does not end with the trailing dash to one.

    One of my link builders did a very stupid mistake.

    She built up links for http://www.jimwestergren.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem

    Instead of http://www.jimwestergren.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem/ (the URL I gave)

    Which is total different URLs by Google.

    Evidence:

    http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seeing-nofollow-links/ PR 5
    http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seeing-nofollow-links PR 0

    So the list of PR 3-5 links I got from her are all useless and can only cause damage. :confused:

    Thanks for helping me on this.

    I could of course just make a 301 on only this example but would be good to make it on all posts for similar links in the future.
     
    Jim_Westergren, Jan 24, 2006 IP
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    nevetS Evolving Dragon

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  4. Jim_Westergren

    Jim_Westergren Notable Member

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    Thanks a lot both of you.

    These lines were the solution:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.jimwestergren.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

    My .htaccess file is now 9,52 KB big, I hope it does not slow down the site ...

    I will blog soon about this, it is vital for all wordpress users.
     
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    I'm confused ... doesn't the web server do the redirect for you automatically?

    MSN and Yahoo drop trailing slashes from their SERP results, so in my web logs, I see this type of stuff all the time. I'm running Apache as a web server.

    So ideally it should be taken care of automatically ... although I've always wondering if the internal algorithms of the search engines realize this - yea, best to fix at the source if at all possible.
     
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    This is only problematic if not the webserver but a script that is not written with that in mind handles the request.

    Normally the webserver would do the redirect automatically.

    I don't know why this only affects MSN and Yahoo(but not Google), probably they have some other heuristics (nice word, I like it. Doesn't describe what it means, just some fuzzy functionality).

    Tobias
     
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