Allow trailing slash in WordPress address (URI)

[tosiabunio]

In Administration/General Options there are two URI fields:

• WordPress address (URI):
• Blog address (URI):

It's not possible to enter any address which ends with trailing slash there, but somethimes is necessary (Apache aliases defined with trailing slash). For example my local blog address is:

​http://localhost/blog/

not:

​http://localhost/blog

Unfortunately I can't set this address to its proper value.

[davidhouse]

Can't you set another Alias without a slash?

[tosiabunio]

Good suggestion. But is there a good reason to strip the trailing slashes in those two addresses?

[skeltoac]

Yes, it normalizes the use of these values throughout the code and plugins. There may be other reasons more important than that.

[markjaquith]

There shouldn't be any cases where links point to the version sans trailing slash. That is, links to the front page should add the trailing slash. <?php bloginfo('home') ; ?>/

If you have found instances where this is not the case, open a new ticket pointing them out. I made a patch several months ago that fixed many of these cases, but I may have missed some.