Remove trailing slash on URLs starting with 2 specific categories

Posted December 10, 2019
Nginx

Using below if and rewrite function how can I remove trailing slashes on all URLs that is appended after /mens-wear and /womens-wear. Example /mens-wear/shirts/

 if (mens-wear, womens-wear) {
  rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 permanent;
   }

riyaaaz

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KFSys • December 12, 2019

Hi @riyaaaz,

You’ll need to use regex. The rule itself should look something like

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com/means-wear$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com/womens-wear$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(\?.*)?$ $1$2 [R=301,L]

Regards, KDSys

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