seo: 301 redirect legacy .html editorial pages to clean URLs before static serve

1baf6481ca77fae41f69030c9513d3a29ad21fab · 2026-06-01 07:47:44 -0700 · steve

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commit 1baf6481ca77fae41f69030c9513d3a29ad21fab
Author: steve <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 1 07:47:44 2026 -0700

    seo: 301 redirect legacy .html editorial pages to clean URLs before static serve
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 server.js | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index 0d96ab2..2c32dcd 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -85,6 +85,14 @@ app.use((req, res, next) => {
   }
   next();
 });
+// Canonical-URL 301: the editorial pages exist in public/ as *.html and are
+// also served clean (see CLEAN_PAGES below), so express.static would otherwise
+// serve BOTH /history and /history.html = duplicate content. Redirect the
+// legacy .html form (and /index.html) to the clean URL before static handles it.
+app.get(/^\/(index|history|care|sourcing|trade|vocabulary)\.html$/i, (req, res) => {
+  const base = req.params[0].toLowerCase();
+  res.redirect(301, base === 'index' ? '/' : `/${base}`);
+});
 app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
 
 // Color buckets for the "Color" sort — group similar hues via tag-match.

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