GitHub Pages trailing slashes

Question

Using Middleman on GitHub Pages with directory_indexes enabled, I wonder if I can somehow get rid of the trailing slash GitHub adds.

My urls are basically: /foo-bar -> /foo-bar/index.html.

Visiting /foo-bar on GitHub Pages redirects to /foo-bar/.

Is there any way to prevent this redirect?

Answer 1

A "trailing slash" redirect is issued when the server receives a request for a URL http://servername/foo/dirname where dirname is a directory. Directories require a trailing slash, so mod_dir issues a redirect to http://servername/foo/dirname/.

Source

The problem with this is that GitHub pages / Jekyll build the way you have shown above. To fix this, foo-bar needs to be a file rather than a directory:

http://example.com/foo-bar.html

Then you should be able to do:

http://example.com/foo-bar

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