How to fix the issue of link without /

[andymok221]

I begin with the doc site starter. However http://localhost:8000/examples goes to 404 page while http://localhost:8001/examples/ works. Is there any way to fix this? I want those without trailing slash will redirect to the one with trailing slash.

[KyleAMathews]

This is something you have to setup with your web server.

What happens when you visit /examples/ is that the web server traverses the file system looking for something to deliver — they see that examples is a directory and so they look to see if there's an index file for that directory aka index.html and if there is, serves that.

Almost every web server does this by default which is why Gatsby outputs files at index.html. If you want to remove the trailing slash, there are ways but it'll take special configuration.

Here's a blog post I found for Nginx. No guarantee on its quality though as not an Nginx expert http://cobwwweb.com/remove-html-extension-and-trailing-slash-in-nginx-config