Hello Robert,
Actually, the # in the URI indicates an anchor, not a comment. They
cannot be matched on, nor captured.
Frank
Robert T Wyatt wrote:
All,
I'll bet this has been answered, but I haven't found it yet. Please
feel free to point me at the answer if you know where it is.
We are trying to redirect users from URLs of the form:
http://www.utexas.edu/student/registrar/schedules/092/regrules/all.html#acc
to URLs of the form:
http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/092/regrules/all.html#acc
(Which is a virtual host on the same Apache 2.2.6 server.)
The characters after # would be the relevant variable that we're
trying to capture and pass through to the server.
We are using .htaccess as follows:
RedirectPermanent /student/registrar/schedules/092/regrules/
http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/092/regrules/
(all on one line)
This "works" in most browsers but fails with Safari. I found a
reference suggesting that .htaccess files cannot redirect fragment
URLs because the "#" character indicates a comment. However my reading
of the documentation is "Lines that begin with the hash character "#"
are considered comments, and are ignored." Meaning that only lines
beginning with that character are ignored and specifically not meaning
that the occurrence of the "#" character in the middle of the line
indicates the beginning of a comment and will be ignored.
What I don't know is whether I'm on the right track or barking up the
wrong tree. I'm trying to figure out:
1) whether I can achieve what I'm trying to do
2) where the problem is
It's possible that we simply need to add the "all.html" to the
redirect directive; please let me know if you feel this is the case.
Thanks for all pointers,
Robert Wyatt
at UT Austin
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