This repository contains an example on how to remove trailing slashes when hosting a Hugo site on AWS S3 + CloudFront.

• hugo >= 0.60
• aws cli >= 1.16.287
• Correct AWS credentials configured on your machine (guide)

• Serves your static site without trailing slashes (example.com/slash will return the same content as example.com/slash/)
• Redirects URLs with trailing slashes to URLs without trailing slashes
• Removes the trailing slashes from canonical links, stub pages and sitemap
• Redirects www to naked URL (www.example.com -> example.com)
• Removes trailing slashes from sitemap, canonical links and page stubs

Note: This template assumes that you have your domain hosted on Route53. Feel free to remove the record set from the template and set your DNS-records in your preferred domain provider.

1. Create ACM certificate, and make sure you select the option to add www to the same certificate upon creation.
2. Fill in all values in the template.yaml between the <> brackets, carefully noting there are a few <> in the Javascript code blocks.
3. Run the following command to deploy the bucket, CloudFront distribution and Route53 records needed to host your Hugo site:

aws cloudformation deploy --stack-name <STACK_NAME> --template-file template.yaml --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM

To deploy your site to the bucket you just deployed run the following commands:

1. Build files hugo
2. Sync files to S3 aws s3 sync ./public s3:https://<BUCKET_NAME> --delete --acl bucket-owner-full-control --acl public-read --cache-control max-age=31536000,public
3. Invalidate the CloudFront cache aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id <DISTRIBUTION_ID> --paths '/*'
4. Done!