Redirect old .html page URLs to clean extension-less routes (301)

919dd6597850146cba687ed75928cf04a763e54d · 2026-06-01 07:20:56 -0700 · Steve

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commit 919dd6597850146cba687ed75928cf04a763e54d
Author: Steve <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 1 07:20:56 2026 -0700

    Redirect old .html page URLs to clean extension-less routes (301)
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 server.js | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index 48f4516..0029e19 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -76,6 +76,15 @@ app.locals.siteConfig = cfg;
 // Fleet-wide DW vendor-name redactor on /api/* (drops vendors facet, replaces vendor field).
 app.use(require('../_shared/api-vendor-redact'));
 
+// Clean-URL canonicalization — 301 the old `.html` form to the extension-less
+// route so there's one canonical URL per page (no duplicate-content / SEO
+// split). Must run BEFORE express.static, else static serves the .html first.
+const CLEAN_REDIRECTS = ['index', 'history', 'vocabulary', 'sourcing', 'care', 'trade'];
+app.get(CLEAN_REDIRECTS.map(s => '/' + s + '.html'), (req, res) => {
+  const slug = req.path.replace(/^\//, '').replace(/\.html$/, '');
+  res.redirect(301, slug === 'index' ? '/' : '/' + slug);
+});
+
 app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
 
 function sortProducts(list, sort) {

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