Phoenix Route redirecting from /users to /users/

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Hi Everyone,
I need help.
i have a route
“/users”
how can i redirect it to “/users/”?
because in router it is consider the same. it redirects over and over again.
thanks

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Can you elaborate on what it is you’re trying to accomplish by doing this? Is it just aesthetic?

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i just want to redirect the “/users” to “/users/” but it is consider the same

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I get that. I want to understand why you want to do that. Why do you want to have the trailing prefix?

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bacause i have an external app ("/users/") and on my route in elixir “/users” i want it to move_permanently to “/users/” when they visit “/users”

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It is a semantic distinction made by some API designers, that a trailing slash indicates a collection ressources, while a missing slash indicates a single ressource.

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can you post the code that is not working?

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This is a guess, but I suppose having user_path(conn, :index) return /users/ instead of /users

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Phoenix ignores the trailing slash when matching but it should not remove them when generating a route. So if you do something like redirect conn, to: "/users/", then it should work.

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Redirects can be cached in browsers, so make sure you test after clearing cache and/or in a private/incognito browser window.

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Caching can really be a hard thing… At least for google chrome I had to learn recently, that disabling the cache in the developer toolbar doesn’t actually disable the cache, but only parts of it…

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