301 Redirect / Mod Rewrite /trainling slashes Question

[matterhornpat]

Hello...new to CMS, been experimenting with it for about a week and love the capabilities.

I develop from an SEO perspective and have a question on rewrites.

I have pretty urls' taken care of, and have redirected domain.com to www.domain.com...have one more thing that I would like to accomplish but am thus far unable to.

Right now crawlers see two versions of home page www.domain.com and www.domain.com/

Is there some kind of conditional or exception to the trailing slashes mod that can be placed on the home page to eliminate this?

Trivial to some I am sure...but really need to accomplish this.

Thanks for any help and input...

[tsw]

what http server are you running?

at least my apache2 does that automatically...

[matterhornpat]

Apache 1.3.37 (Unix)

[Pierre M.]

Hello

Right now crawlers see two versions of home page www.domain.com and www.domain.com/

I can't beleve this ! I have never seen a .com postfixed root URL in any browser. World record !-)

Pierre M.

[matterhornpat]

I take it I am being made fun of....

Was just asking for some help or an explanation.

[Pierre M.]

I'm sorry. Please don't take it like this. I apologize if I have hurt you.
Here is a more friendly response :
Do you really see a .com postfixed root URL in the address bar of some browser ? I mean : root URL with no trailing slash ?
What makes you think "crawlers see two versions of home page" ? I would understand if you have said "/" and "/index.html" which isn't a problem for good crawlers.

Pierre M.

[matterhornpat]

I used a tool, called "crawl test", which is located at seomoz.org

When I run a test for www.mydomain.com it returns both www.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com/

[tsw]

quick googling came up with this

http://enarion.net/web/apache/htaccess/trailing-slash/

[Pierre M.]

I still fail to understand how a browser could request some URL "rooter" than "/". If it asks "GET /" then it should show ".com/" in the address bar, shouldn't it ?

I'm not confident about seomoz tools.

See this : http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... hadoks.com
There is no trailing slash and the w3 validator responds by stating it has tested http://www.lesshadoks.com/ (with trailing slash).

".com" means an empty URL, hence not on the web. This is why I was so surprised in my first post above.

Pierre M.

[tsw]

I have never seen such behavior either..

and the tool requires login to yetanothersiteiwouldneedtocreatenewpasswordfor

[matterhornpat]

Thanks for the explanation and insight...

Much appreciated.