Proxies and paths

[hrishikesh]

@dhill

If the “Pretty URLs” is enabled, which it is, it should be adding the trailing slash for consistency - regardless of the endpoint being a file or directory.

Pretty URLs is not meant to add redirects to serve with trailing slash, more on that here:

[Support Guide] How can I alter trailing slash behaviour in my URLs? Will enabling Pretty URLs help?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support: July 2025 First Steps Depending on how you configure your site, you may be served either www.example.com/about or www.example.com/about/ – so, what’s easiest? What’s best? What’s the way to make this behaviour match what you want it to do? One source notes: Theoretically a URL with a trailing slash implies a directory and a URL without a trailing slash is a file, but this isn’t really important anymore. Although it may not be important, it’s a good rule of…

About the redirects, the configuration that you have with the correct order should work correctly.