RewriteRule to a hashbang / in-page bookmark

The new layout of this website has the contact details of the company listed in the footer of every page. Thus I want to redirect all requests for the old "1234.html" style contact page built using a hosting companies in-house builder, to the website index with the anchor of the contact details. "/index.html#contact".

Attempt one;



Result



It looks like Apache is URL encoding the pound symbol in my resulting URL, which prevents the browser from picking it up.

Found something called "Extended Redirection" on the Apache website (here) which makes me believe this will be more trouble than it's worth. It suggests setting up a new URL scheme, a CGI program, and by the looks of things it's just sending an intermediary webpage with an HTML link on it anyways.

I believe all you need to do is pass in the NE flag which prevents mod_rewrite from applying hexcode escaping of special characters in the result of the rewrite. So in your above example:

Worked like a charm, thank you!

I thought there was some sort of flag like that, I gave up on it when I came across the CGI example at Apache's site earlier though. Been a few months, I've gotten rusty.

No problem