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Whenever I type my domain, example: www.example there is a forward slash that automatically appears in Firefox. Example: www.example/

How can I remove this?

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Whenever I type my domain, example: www.example there is a forward slash that automatically appears in Firefox. Example: www.example/

How can I remove this?

• urls
• htaccess
• site-url
• home-url

• 2 Do you mean on your site's settings page or in your browser's address bar? I don't think the '/' matters though. Why do you want to remove it? – Rup Commented Feb 2, 2021 at 10:36
• You can go to settings > permalinks and remove the trailing slash there, other than that you can edit the .htaccess. See this for more information – Buttered_Toast Commented Feb 2, 2021 at 10:55
• 1 Note that example/ and example are the same URL, and Google Chrome will even auto-remove the / if you type that address in the address bar. This is unlikely to be a WP thing and is probably a browser thing – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented Feb 2, 2021 at 11:19
• @Buttered_Toast The OP is talking about the slash at the start of the URL-path, immediately after the hostname, not the trailing slash at the end of the URL-path, as discussed in that linked question. – MrWhite Commented Feb 2, 2021 at 11:22
• 1 thanks everyone for your responses. i think @Tom J Nowell may be right. I tried using chrome and the slash disappeared. but in fire fox which is the default browser i use it's still there, even when i hover over the tab it says www.mydomain/ I guess I will just live with it. – user201299 Commented Feb 2, 2021 at 12:20

1 Answer 1

This isn't a WordPress thing, this is a browser/HTTP thing. Firefox may be showing the / as part of a setting, but example and example/ are the same URL.

This Q on webmasters goes into more detail as to why this is the case:

https://webmasters.stackexchange/questions/35643/is-trailing-slash-automagically-added-on-click-of-home-page-url-in-browser