Trailing slash in WordPress address

  • AdrianB

    (@adrianb)


    22 years ago

    I search the forums and checked the faq, but I couldn’t find an answer to this question:
    Why can’t I save a trailing slash for the WordPress address in the General Options?
    I want my WP address to be like this: http://mydomain.tld/myblog/ but in the General Options it only saves this: http://mydomain.tld/myblog
    This causes a problem, because the main title for my blog get that address linked and when I click on it this happens:
    1) the browser tries http://mydomain.tld/myblog
    2) the web server redirects to http://www.mydomain.tld/myblog/
    Apparantly, if the trailing slash is missing it redirects and adds the www, which I don’t want (I could add som mod_rewrite I guess, but if there were a trailing slash that redirection wouldn’t need to happen at all). Right now I’ve added the trailing slash in my index.php, but I was curious why it isn’t saved.

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  • TechGnome

    (@techgnome)

    22 years ago

    Because it is used to build the permalinks and other links for navigation. It’s a consistency thing.
    TG

    Thread Starter AdrianB

    (@adrianb)

    22 years ago

    Ah. But isn’t it the “wrong” thing to do, to rely on a redirection by the web server?

    industrialtaylor

    (@industrialtaylor)

    22 years ago

    Aagh… having the same problem.

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