Title: trailing slash problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# trailing slash problem

 *  [neonWired](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neonwired/)
 * (@neonwired)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-problem/)
 * I have my blog in a directory and the root page in it’s parent. I set it up correctly
   in settings, most of the links are correct but the RSS feed links add a trailing
   slash like [http://www.mysite.co.uk/discuss.php/?feed=rss2](http://www.mysite.co.uk/discuss.php/?feed=rss2)
 * Is this a bug or something i havent set up correctly?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-problem/#post-1372774)
 * Site url?
 *  Thread Starter [neonWired](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neonwired/)
 * (@neonwired)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-problem/#post-1372953)
 * its not live
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-problem/#post-1372996)
 * In that case, try reviewing [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
   and check that you’re got WP set up correctly.
 *  Thread Starter [neonWired](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neonwired/)
 * (@neonwired)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-problem/#post-1373080)
 * Thanks, that’s what i followed to set it up. I think the problem is with step
   4 “In the box for Blog address (URL): change the address to the root directory’s
   URL. Example: [http://example.com&#8221](http://example.com&#8221);
 * This appears to require that the root be a directory (hence the trailing slash).
   However the site i’m developing requires that the root is a page which is to 
   have the filename discussions.php (the index page being used for other something
   else). If i put [http://example.com/discussions.php](http://example.com/discussions.php)
   as the blog address setting it seems to take discussions.php as a directory name.
 * Is there a way round this other than URL rewriting?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-problem/#post-1373089)
 * It does need to be a folder – not a filename. Set the url initially to [http://example.com/wordpress_folder](http://example.com/wordpress_folder).
   Then either redirect [http://example.com/discussions.php](http://example.com/discussions.php)
   to [http://example.com/wordpress_folder](http://example.com/wordpress_folder).
   Or have a look at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_Wordpress_with_Your_Website](http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_Wordpress_with_Your_Website)
 *  Thread Starter [neonWired](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neonwired/)
 * (@neonwired)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-problem/#post-1373174)
 * If i set the Blog address to the wordpress directory all the RSS links go there
   which isn’t what i want. They need to link to [http://example.com/discussions.php](http://example.com/discussions.php)
 *  Thread Starter [neonWired](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neonwired/)
 * (@neonwired)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-problem/#post-1373202)
 * Is there any edits that can be made to allow a page other than index to be the
   base.
 *  [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/)
 * (@henkholland)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-problem/#post-1373203)
 * Neonwired, I have the same setup as you have and my blog url is:
    `http://www.
   mysite.com` without a trailing slash.
 * My WordPress url (the one above the blog url) is:
    `http://www.mysite.com/wordpress`
   also without trailing slash.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 8 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trailing-slash-problem/#post-1373203)
 * Status: not resolved

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