Should I include trailing slash?

  • Resolved jotay100

    (@jotay100)


    1 year, 4 months ago

    A very basic question I’m sure, but this is all very new to me.

    I’ve created some redirections, which seem to be working fine, but I’ve had a page indexing error alert from Google Search Console. It’s for a page that I have already set up a redirect for, but I didn’t include a trailing slash in the source URL of my redirect, and the alert from Google is for the same URL but with a trailing slash.

    Should I have set up my source URLs for the redirection with a trailing slash included?

    Thank you in advance for any help/advice.

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    You set your redirects to exactly match whatever the URLs are on your site. If your site has trailing slashes then it needs to include that.

    If you want to ignore the trailing slashes then you can configure that (https://redirection.me/support/)

    Thread Starter jotay100

    (@jotay100)

    Thank you so much for the speedy response. Yes, I have made an error there as my site does have trailing slashes that have somehow bypassed my brain. I have now added a trailing slash to the redirects.

    Just to be completely confident about this: if I leave the yellow/orange “Ignore Slash x” showing on the redirection set-up, this means that the ‘same’ URL without the trailing slash would also be redirected, does it?

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    this means that the ‘same’ URL without the trailing slash would also be redirected, does it?

    Yes.

    Thread Starter jotay100

    (@jotay100)

    Perfect. Thank you!

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