Remove Trailing Slash

Ethan Schofer

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I would like to never have the trailing slash in my URLs. I can remove it with redirects, and with routing settings. But I am having trouble coming up with a good way to remove it when I am generating Urls that wiull appear on the page. There seems to be several different ways to accomplish getting Urls on the page, and I need to account for all of them (Url Resolver, Url Extension methods, UrlHelper extension methods, etc...) Additionally, in these cases I seem to need to get rid of it with string replcaement, which just feels dirty. Is there a more centralized way to accomplish this?

#198964

Nov 09, 2018 20:05

Jake Jones

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Hi,

You need to set UseTrailingSlash.

Something like:

var routingOptions = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<RoutingOptions>();
routingOptions.UseTrailingSlash = false;

in an Initialization Module or Application_Start should work.

/Jake

#198969

Nov 09, 2018 21:29

Ethan Schofer

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Yes, I tried that. Unfortunately, it didnt fix the problem.

#198970

Edited, Nov 09, 2018 21:42

Jake Jones

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Where did you set it? Are you able to give a code sample?

#198971

Nov 09, 2018 21:53

Ethan Schofer

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I set it in an Initialization Module:

/// <summary>
    /// Set up custom routes
    /// </summary>
    [InitializableModule]
    [ModuleDependency(typeof(ServiceContainerInitialization))]
    public class RoutingInitialization : IInitializableModule
    {
        private static bool _initialized;

        public void Initialize(InitializationEngine context)
        {
            if (_initialized || context.HostType != HostType.WebApplication)
                return;
            
            RouteTable.Routes.LowercaseUrls = true;
            RouteTable.Routes.AppendTrailingSlash = false;

            RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute("Sitemap without path", "sitemap.xml", new { controller = "XmlSitemap", action = "Index" });
            RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute("Sitemap with path", "{path}sitemap.xml", new { controller = "XmlSitemap", action = "Index" });
            RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute("Sitemap with language", "{language}/sitemap.xml", new { controller = "XmlSitemap", action = "Index" });
            RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute("Sitemap with language and path", "{language}/{path}sitemap.xml", new { controller = "XmlSitemap", action = "Index" });
            RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute("Robots", "robots.txt", new { controller = "Robots", action = "Robots" });
            

            _initialized = true;
        }

        public void Uninitialize(InitializationEngine context)
        {
            
        }

#198972

Nov 09, 2018 22:00

Jake Jones

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Ok, that's not the same as my example.

You're setting AppendTrailingSlash for the standard ASP.NET MVC routing. Episerver has it's own routing, hence why you need to set UseTrailingSlash in the Episerver RoutingOptions class.

#198973

Nov 09, 2018 22:26

Ethan Schofer

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Thank you. I knew there had to be a centralized way to do it.

#198974

Nov 09, 2018 23:00