Avoiding the Trailing Slash Tax on Github Pages and Astro
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The article discusses the 'trailing slash tax' issue on GitHub Pages and Astro, and how to avoid it, with comments providing additional insights and suggestions.
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ChrisArchitect
2 months ago
1 replyweird post. I mean, you set the permalink scheme in your config how you want. Of course it treats files and directories differently. Your scheme is trailing-slash. So traffic to no-trailing-slash is going to 301. You're lucky it 301s instead of 404.
cancanAuthor
2 months ago
This site is hosted on Github Pages as a statically built site; it's not served by Astro. I don't think I can control what they do with trailing slashes or the lack of it. This is also clarified on the Astro config.
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