trailing /

trailing / error, apache mod_rewrite

[snook]

we recently redid our site 4 months ago, and we made an error with our urls

The old site had a good amount of the site without trailing /
like so
www..mysite.com/abc

are new site has
www.mysite.com/abc/

Now google has both listed, with the older site url with higher page rank.

What is the best way to correct this?
A rule we can put in apache?

Thanks in advance for the help

[snook]

I probably should of put this in the Apache forum, but I wanted to make sure I correct this the right way, not to loose page rank.

Reading Apache doc we were going to put

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /~quux/
RewriteRule ^foo$ foo/ [R]

And then remove all trailing / from our code.
Would that be the correct way to fix?

[manca]

Just do a perm redirection to not trailing slash urls to the ones which contain / . That should do a trick, and google will index only one "version" of urls....

Manca

[jdMorgan]

In order to tell the search engines what the correct URLs are, so that they can drop the incorrect ones, you want a 301-Moved Permanently redirect, so the syntax is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /~quux/
RewriteRule ^foo/$ [b]http://www.example.com/[/b]foo [[b]R=301,L[/b]]

However, if 'foo' is a directory, then this won't work, since a trailing slash is required on directory-paths.

Jim

[maurizio63]

I have the same problem with WordPress :-(

[snook]

thanks so much for the help!

I have page rank on the old urls
If I do the 301's to the new urls, will the page rank carry over?

If it will not carry over, then I have another question

if I do the 301 to old urls

Do I also need to go through the code and fix the url (to be without trailing dash)?

or won't it matter because I have the 301's in place?