Leading slashes at end of URL

[wood1e]

Hi,

I have a client who has URLs http://www.mywebsite.com/fredsplace.html But they have had some duplicate URL issues in that they also appear to have /fredsplace.html/

But I cannot see that it is possible to re-direct all trailing slash pages back to the non trailing slash page?

So

1) Because I don't think it is possible? Unless the client was using Non-HTML URLs

and

2) Am I right?

In which case

3) What would be a good solution? And no changing all the URLs to non-HTML pages is not a good one

Many thanks in advance

[edmondscommerce]

if you want to redirect urls with .html/ to the same without the trailing slash then this shoudl do it i think:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html/ $1\.html [R=301,L]

[wood1e]

Many thanks I will give it a go.

[JuzzyC77]

Hi guys,

I am new here and I realise this is an old thread but I am also having this problem with one of our client sites.

It only seems to be doing it on the articles for the blog but rather than putting redirects in place I was wondering if anyone new a solution to stop it happening in the first place?

Thanks

[brucekenway]

Hi everyone,
Thank you for sharing great information.

[jameswarner]

Hi,

301 redirect is best options to avoid duplicate URL issue in your website.

recommended to use 301 redirect.

Thanks

[lytong]

Your post is so informative. I love the way it resonates with a lot of people.

[patrickV]

Hi,

did you check if he has canonical tag enabled ? canonical solve most of internal duplicate problem.