permalink and force forward slash in url

hello, below is my code without the forward slash part:

# START: CMS Permalink Code
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

### Manually detect URL Scheme (http or https). Cloud Servers & Load Balancers don't always give correct value
### ... of: HTTPS, REQUEST_SCHEME, SERVER_PORT, but ENV:HTTPS is sometimes manually set for us so we check both.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:HTTPS} on [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [E=URL_SCHEME:https,S=1]
RewriteRule .* - [E=URL_SCHEME:http]

### Force www. prefix - (RECOMMENDED/OPTIONAL) SEO to prevent duplicate urls (uncomment to use)
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
#RewriteRule .* %{ENV:URL_SCHEME}://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,NE,L]

### Remove www prefix - Optional SEO to prevent duplicate urls (uncomment to use)
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
#RewriteRule .* %{ENV:URL_SCHEME}://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,NE,L]

### Force HTTPS secure connections - Optional security (uncomment to use)
#RewriteCond %{ENV:URL_SCHEME} http$ [NC]
#RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,NE,L]

### Pass URL to permalinks dispatcher (do this last after any www or https redirects)
RewriteRule ^permalinks_dispatcher\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /cms/permalinks_dispatcher.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END: CMS Permalink Code

Hello,

In most cases, altering your htaccess to the following should work to enforce trailing slashes:

# START: CMS Permalink Code
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*[^/])$ /$1/ [L,R] # <- for test, for prod use [L,R=301]

### Manually detect URL Scheme (http or https). Cloud Servers & Load Balancers don't always give correct value
### ... of: HTTPS, REQUEST_SCHEME, SERVER_PORT, but ENV:HTTPS is sometimes manually set for us so we check both.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:HTTPS} on [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [E=URL_SCHEME:https,S=1]
RewriteRule .* - [E=URL_SCHEME:http]

### Force www. prefix - (RECOMMENDED/OPTIONAL) SEO to prevent duplicate urls (uncomment to use)
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
#RewriteRule .* %{ENV:URL_SCHEME}://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,NE,L]

### Remove www prefix - Optional SEO to prevent duplicate urls (uncomment to use)
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
#RewriteRule .* %{ENV:URL_SCHEME}://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,NE,L]

### Force HTTPS secure connections - Optional security (uncomment to use)
#RewriteCond %{ENV:URL_SCHEME} http$ [NC]
#RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,NE,L]

### Pass URL to permalinks dispatcher (do this last after any www or https redirects)
RewriteRule ^permalinks_dispatcher\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /cms/permalinks_dispatcher.php [L]

</IfModule>
# END: CMS Permalink Code

However, if this does not work, the next thing to look at is if trailing slashes show up when entering a permalink that doesn't exist. (e.g. "www.your-domain.com/12345") If yes, then that means your htaccess is correct, but there's some other configuration altering the permalinks. One thing to look into is the "MultiViews" option in the Apache configuration.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks,

Moh3, 

Just curious, where are the links coming from that don't have a slash on the end?  Shouldn't all permalink generated links have a slash? 

dear dave, the concept i'm after is to have http://localhost/cms/blog to become http://localhost/cms/blog/ at the current time they both are working with and without the slash this will end in SEO duplicates as they would be considered different pages , i know the canonical tags but why not avoid all that and have the server inforce either with or without but not both

your suggested code didn't work as it redirects out of the working directory (/cms/) any thought how can i have it to redirect within that folder ?

Hi moh3, 

There's some more details on how google views this issue here: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html

Are you running the latest CMSB and Permalinks plugin?  I'm going to see if we can update the plugin within the next week or so to automatically redirect to urls with trailing slashes.

That’ll be great Dave. I’m asked often about that also. 

Dear Dave, i do have both latest CMS Builder and Perma links Plugin , actually had it CMS Builder since 2012 :) i'm a believer 

that would be wonderful, i actually found a solution i'm only doing some tests on my local host but i have an issue in setting the env variable that detects (http/https) in the .hta access file 

### Manually detect URL Scheme (http or https). Cloud Servers & Load Balancers don't always give correct value
### ... of: HTTPS, REQUEST_SCHEME, SERVER_PORT, but ENV:HTTPS is sometimes manually set for us so we check both.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{ENV:HTTPS} on [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [E=URL_SCHEME:https,S=1]
RewriteRule .* - [E=URL_SCHEME:http]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(php|html?|jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/cms/$1$2/ [L,R=301]

How do i assign the http / https to be automatically detect in rule above?

A side note is the documentation must be extended to have more information on the avaiable functions,hooks and other API that we can use

this software is one of the best and you build virtually anything but is lacking that information

thanks