Remove Trailing Slash From URLs - .htaccess

Question

I'm trying to remove the trailing slash from our URLs. I adjusted our .htaccess file and added this code:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
Unfortunately this didn't work as the pages (except for the homepage) suddenly show too many redirects and I get a message from the system saying "The page isn’t redirecting properly".
I was thinking maybe I made an error in the way I inserted the code. Originally, our .htaccess file has this:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
After adjusting it to insert the code, it looked like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
And that resulted in an error. Can anybody point out where I went wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

Turns out it's a Wordpress issue. It's something you can adjust by going to your Wordpress site's Permalink Settings. From here you can choose your preferred URL format. "With-trailing-slash" is the default format so you definitely need to make an adjustment if you want the typical "without-trailing-slash" format.