SEO-friendly URLs and .htaccess

[gandalf458]

I have a website with SEO-friendly URLs (for example, contact-us rather than contact-us.php)

I have the following commands in my .htaccess file which directs all the pages correctly.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([-A-Za-z0-9]+)$ $1.php [PT,L]

I would also like, if possible, to direct visitors to the correct page if they inadvertently add a trailing slash.

Can it be done? I'm a numpty with regex.

 

[ChrisHirst]

I have a website with SEO-friendly URLs (for example, contact-us rather than contact-us.php)

The SEO bit is a something of a fallacy nowadays by the way, it has been overused so much that search engines are paying little or no attention to URL keywords other than for when looking for obvious signs of a site URL having been "SEOed" to death.

Chris.

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[ChrisHirst]

Oh but to answer the question, tack an optional '/' on to the pattern

/? (The ? means match one or zero times)

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[gandalf458]

Thanks Chris. And yes I'm never quite sure what constitutes "good" SEO. Design a site for humans.

 

[ChrisHirst]

Design a site for humans.

Yep, that's all it needs.

Chris.

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