FIXED: Next js pages with trailing slash

Posted 3 years ago by Ryan Dhungel

Category: Next JS Web Development

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Are you getting 404 error page when your next js pages(url) are accessed with trailing(ending) slash at the end? I came across this issue when I wanted to move my existing site to a new site that was built using next js.

If your pages are alerady indexed by google with ending slash like so domain.com/blog/my-blog/

Then this page will return 404 error: domain.com/blog/my-blog

This is a disaster for exising SEO pages but luckily with a bit of a regular expression we can fix this issue.

Create a file called server.js in the root of your next js project.

// server.js
const express = require("express");
const next = require("next");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");

const dev = process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production";
const app = next({ dev });
const handle = app.getRequestHandler();

app.prepare().then(() => {
  const server = express();
  server.use(bodyParser.json());

  server.get("*", (req, res) => {
    req.url = req.url.replace(/\/$/, "");
    if (req.url == "") {
      req.url = "/";
    }
    return handle(req, res);
  });

  server.listen(3000, err => {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log("> Read on http://localhost:3000");
  });
});

Modify your start script in package.json so your app runs correctly in both dev and production mode.

// package.json
 "scripts": {
    "dev": "NODE_ENV=development node server.js",
    "now-build": "next build",
    "build": "next build",
    "start": "NODE_ENV=production node server.js",
  },

In development you can run npm run dev
In production you can run pm2 start npm -- start

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