Canonicalization issue I cant work out

[AdenBrands]

Seo Moz have kindly brought to my attention some canonicalization issues with my site.

Firstly I've adjust http://capitalalist.com to 301 redirect to http://www.capitalalist.com via htaccess.

But the crawl has shown for every page in my site the problem below:

http://www.capitalalist.com/cirque-du-soir

http://www.capitalalist.com/cirque-du-soir/

It's just that last / that's causing the problem. But I can't seem to see anyone having the same issue before.

BTW im using wordpress if that makes a difference.

Can anyone elaborate on the issue? How would i adjust my htaccess file to redirect a request with a / on the end of it?

Thanks in advance!

[AdenBrands]

Thanks Jassy.

Exactly what i was looking for.

Good stuff!

[JaspalX]

Hi Paul, try something like this, but there are many variations of these on the web.

Posted this just as the yoast post was coming on.

#add trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)([^/])$ http://www.capitalist.com/$1$2/ [R=301,L]

add www for non www pages

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^capitalist.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.capitalist.com/$1 [L,R=301]

[irvingw]

The good folks at Yoast created a Wordpress plugin to deal with this very issue:

http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/