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Hi,
I use the htaccess maker and have a problem with the redirect from non-www to www-URL for a specific file.
Google Adsense cannot crawl the ads.txt file in root directory, that leads to revenue loss.
Google support checked it and found, there is a slash too much at the redirect from non-www to https://www.domain.de/ads.txt/
The "/" after ads.txt/ should be removed.

It seems that there is a "/" added at general for all http redirect requests. How is it possible to prevent this or at least for the redirect to ads.txt?

Settings for base directory of the site use / for domain's root (like suggested in admintool documentation)
Redirect code, which is generated by htaccess maker:

##### Redirect index.php to / -- BEGIN
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^POST
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}>s ^(443>(s)|[0-9]+>s)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http%2://www.wunsch-hund.de/ [R=301,L]
##### Redirect index.php to / -- END

##### Redirect non-www to www -- BEGIN
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}>s ^(on>(s)|.*>s)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http%2://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
##### Redirect non-www to www -- END

Regards,
Wolfgang

Wolfgang,

I don't think the trailing slash is the problem. A while back we made a change that requires an exception for any file outside the /media or /images folders that is directly accessed.

In .htaccess Maker, add a line to "Allow direct access to these files". Add

ads.txt

on a new line all by itself. I think that will fix the problem.

Hi Dale,
unfortunately not. I tried this before, the line with ads.txt is added already in "Allow direct access to these files". But without success.
Google support use an internal tool, which shows, what the crawler get from the domain. Currently it is https://www.wunsch-hund.de/ads.txt/

Regards, Wolfgang

Hello Nicholas,
I see, you are right. We followed your suggestion. Thanks for support!

Regards,
Wolfgang