Html to Wordpress issue

[Ridge]

I am moving a casino site form html to Wordpress. The html url's end with a trailing "/" and I cannot get wordpress to do that.

I tried adding this to my .htacess file but it didn't work -

# rewrite pages to use a trailing slash
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1/ [L,R=301]

I supposed I could just 301 the old url's, but would rather learn to make this work.

[CK]

Here is what I have in most of mine when wordpress installs

BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

[Ridge]

Ok, tried that and it doesnt work either. Anyone else have an idea?

[MJ]

I don't buy the argument that changes URL's hurts at all, I've done this recently on a few sites and 95% of the pages are ranking in the same spots with new URLS anyways, so I'd just set up the structure exactly as you want it and apply a 301 with redirection and wash your hands of it.

Point a few links if you are in a hurry = done. I'm sure this isn't new to you Randy, but I've seen other threads about this lately, good luck.

[Ridge]

Yeah, honestly having a trailing / is just a personal preference and I hate having a redirect file that is a mile long.. After sleeping on it, I 301'd the old url's and have decided to redo the entire structure.

Still, I want to know how to make the end "/" show up just for future refrence

[Ridge]

Duh! Here is an easy fix -

Add the trailing "/" to the end of your custom permalink structure