All static routes without trailing slashes are being redirected

[kevinleedrum]

My site is at https://elaborate-clafoutis-88f6ff.netlify.app/. All of my routes are static pages (e.g. /this-is-not-a-google-font/index.html). For all links on my site, I would prefer to link to the path without trailing slashes (e.g. /this-is-not-a-google-font).

According to another post, netlify’s default behavior should be exactly what I want. However, all of my links are being redirected with a status of 301 to the same path with a trailing slash. I do not have Asset Optimization enabled, nor do I have a redirects file.

How can I fix all of these unwanted redirects?

[nathanmartin]

@kevinleedrum

According to another post, netlify’s default behavior should be exactly what I want.

That’s not how I read the linked post.

You’ve mentioned that your actual file location is:

/this-is-not-a-google-font/index.html

It’s fairly subtle but that post effectively says:

/this-is-not-a-google-font.html -> /this-is-not-a-google-font
/this-is-not-a-google-font/index.html -> /this-is-not-a-google-font/

It’s outlined in this part:

@Scott

With a file at /blog.html

• Navigating to /blog.html will serve /blog.html
• Navigating to /blog will serve /blog
• Navigating to /blog/ will 301 redirect and serve /blog

With a file at /blog/index.html (and no file at /blog.html!)

• Navigating to /blog.html will 301 redirect and serve /blog/
• Navigating to /blog will 301 redirect and serve /blog/
• Navigating to /blog/ will serve /blog/

[kevinleedrum]

You are so right. I ended up just adding the slashes to all my links after I found yet another post that confirmed what you said. Thanks for your help!