Add Trailing Slash to all urls

[BrentWilson]

If you go here http://www.mustangevolution.com/gallery/ and look at the links to categorys, photos etc you will notice that they don't have a trailing slash on them such as this one: http://www.mustangevolution.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/2 how can I make it add a slash to the end so that it appears such as this http://www.mustangevolution.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/2/

[Chuck S]

Your links posted above are completed identical so I do not understand what your asking.

At any rate the links on your site are correct as they are suppose to be they are spider urls

http://www.mustangevolution.com/gall...lery.php/cat/2

[mihirp]

You can do it by using mod rewrite on your server. I had done it on one of my server such that any url which is of format www.domain.com/cat will change to www.domain.com/cat/

I will check up the script and let you know. In the meanwhile you can also post your query at Mod Rewrite Forums at http://forum.modrewrite.com/ . I doubt whether you would need to post your query because if you search through the forums, you will get an answer by reading existing posts.

[BrentWilson]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Your links posted above are completed identical so I do not understand what your asking.

At any rate the links on your site are correct as they are suppose to be they are spider urls

http://www.mustangevolution.com/gall...lery.php/cat/2

Sorry forgot the trailing slash after the last one. Check it again

Right now on the Gallery all the urls do not have the trailing slash.

[Chuck S]

Okay I dont get what your trying to say cause the gallery is not suppose to have an extra slash at the end

[mihirp]

BrentWilson,

I see that your urls now have a trailing slash. Possibly you added the rewrite rule.

[BrentWilson]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Okay I dont get what your trying to say cause the gallery is not suppose to have an extra slash at the end

I want it to have a trailing slash at the end. It makes 0 sense to have the urls rendered on the page without a trailing slash and then when you click on the url the trailing slash is added. It's not good for SEO.

A screen shot so we know exactly what I am talking about here:

This is the forum gallery main page with NO SLASH added to the links:

http://www.mustangevolution.com/brent/noslash.jpg

This is the result when I click on the link highlighted in the above screenshot:

http://www.mustangevolution.com/brent/slash.jpg

As far as the Mod_Rewrite I have changed nothing. Not sure what you are seeing. I searched that forum for "photopost" and it didn't return anything.

So how can I make it add the slash by default.

[Chuck S]

You would have to do some kind of mod rewrite. You can investigate mod rewrite by reading

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

[mihirp]

Brent,

I think I know what that is. There is already a mode rwerite setting present on your server to process all the urls by adding a trailing slashes to them. That can be set globally or domain wise. Ask your administrator and he should know about it. If not sure, ask him to look for the <virtualhost> entry for this particular domain in httpd.conf and it should show something or perhaps this setting has been done globally for all the domains and it might be active in httpd.conf

Alternately it could also have been done via .htaccess file which could be present in either your home dir or your gallery folder. Ask your admin to check whether it exists or not.

In case you really want the trailing slashes to also effect in the source of your files, then you would have to manually add it to the source code which is pretty simple. I believe simply look for the following type of entries in php files and add the trailing slash.

if ( $Globals['spider'] == "yes" )
{
$conurl = construct_ppurl( "{$Globals['maindir']}/showphoto.php/photo/$photo/cpage/$p" );
}
else
{
$conurl = construct_ppurl( "{$Globals['maindir']}/showphoto.php?photo=$photo&amp;cpage=$p"

Change it like this:

"{$Globals['maindir']}/showphoto.php/photo/$photo/cpage/$p/" ); instead of
"{$Globals['maindir']}/showphoto.php/photo/$photo/cpage/$p" );

Don't change the dynamic url syntax which is

"{$Globals['maindir']}/showphoto.php?photo=$photo&amp;cpage=$p"

I am not sure whether the trailing slash added at the end would 100% work. You might try testing it. Backup all your existing php scripts and make those changes and see how they look.

[BrentWilson]

Thank you for your response. I am slowly finding all of them in the source. I'd still love to figure out a way to do it without altering the source because it's painful upgrading if I have to do this each time.

This should be default. Makes absolutely no sense not to add the trailing slash to the source code but add it when clicked.