Trailing slashes

[stuartcusackie]

Bug description

Are trailing slashes supported? I can't find a definitive answer to this in any of the existing issues or on Discord.

I have added trailing slashes to each of my collections but calling $entry->url always returns a url without a trailing slash.

Personally I can do without trailing slashes but some of my clients insist on maintaining the slash structure when switching from WordPress to Statamic.

If they are supported by Statamic then I think there is a bug.

How to reproduce

Create a collection with a trailing slash route, e.g.:
{parent_uri}/{slug}/

Call {{ $entry->url }} and noticed that trailing slashes are not visible.

Logs

No response

Environment

Laravel Version: 11.34.2
PHP Version: 8.3.15
Composer Version: 2.7.4
Version: 5.41.0 PRO

Installation

Fresh statamic/statamic site via CLI

Additional details

No response

[duncanmcclean]

Statamic doesn't currently support trailing slashes in URLs, but it is on our roadmap:

It doesn't look like we currently have a feature request issue open for it, so I'm going to transfer this to the ideas repo.

[carstenjaksch]

Any news? I am about to relaunch a WordPress site on Statamic and wonder if it would be possible to easily enforce trailing slashes. To add context: I would use Full Measure Static Caching.

More precisely:

• Redirect to entry route with trailing slash.
• Canonical should point to route with trailing slash.
• Internal links should return the trailing slash version of a URL.

[duncanmcclean]

Sorry, I don't have any news on this, or an ETA. We'll update this issue when we have any news.

[mthorsdal]

Is there a workaround for this until it will be launched? Or any news?

[jasonvarga]

The workaround is to add a server rewrite rule to redirect the trailing slash url to the non-trailing slash url.

Something like this:

rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 permanent;

[mthorsdal]

Thanks Jason!

We are migrating a site that depends heavily on organic search traffic within the next few months - and our SEO consultants advise against redirecting all URL's without a very good reason.

I'd be hoping to find a "quick and dirty" solution that fixes {{url}} tags as well as sitemap/hreflang/canonical etc generation, allowing us to actually be using an ending / until statamic team pushes the feature #9997 from roadmap.

[jasonvarga]

If you're providing 301 redirects I don't think there's a hit to SEO. But I'm no expert.