Title: Trailing slash
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Trailing slash

 *  Resolved [F35](https://wordpress.org/support/users/f35/)
 * (@f35)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-4/)
 * Hi Yoast,
    Hello everybody
 * A few days ago all things works good with my sitemap.
    I mean: when I was tried
   to go to mydomain/sitemap.xml I was redirect to mydomain/sitemap_index.xml (everything
   ok)
 * but right now I get 404 error
 * A few days ago I made a little modification and now I have **all** my links with
   trailing slash in the end (sitemap_index.xml/) too.
 * My question: how can I resolve this?
 * Thank you very much
    Regards.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  Thread Starter [F35](https://wordpress.org/support/users/f35/)
 * (@f35)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-4/#post-6673629)
 * I will try to explain it better,
 * _a few days ago:_
    domain.com/sitemap.xml……….domain.com/sitemap_index.xml ————————————————————
 * _today:_
    domain.com/sitemap.xml……….404 error
 * right now if I try domain.com/sitemap_index.xml redirect me to domain.com/sitemap_index.
   com**/**
 *  [AskKim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askkim/)
 * (@askkim)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-4/#post-6673771)
 * Hi F5,
 * It looks like you’ve made a modification to your permalinks that have resulted
   in the trailing slash. If you need help setting up your permalinks, there are
   developers for hire at: [http://directory.codepoet.com/](http://directory.codepoet.com/)
 * Our plugin does not output a sitemap.xml so if you had a redirection in place,
   then it is something that has now been changed or edited. The correct path is
   sitemap_index.xml for the dynamic sitemap we create. Please be sure that is the
   URL you submit to Google Search Console.
 * ~ Kim ~
    Support at Yoast

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-4/#post-6673771)
 * Status: resolved