Help w/ Apache htaccess (RewriteRule)

bhuwan · 03-13-2006, 05:19 PM

I am trying to match...
/somethinghere/p-herealso/#bookmark112

With this code...

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/p-(.*)/\#bookmark(.*)\.html$ go.php?$4 [L]

But it doesn't match the "#" portion -- any idea how?

zeitounator · 03-16-2006, 06:06 AM

First of all, even if your don't take into account the bad news below, your regexp would not match what you are trying to match.

Code:

^(.*)/p-\#bookmark(.*)\.html$

would match

Code:

/blabla/p-blibli/#bookmark567.html

But now the real bad news: what you want to do is not possible because the '# portion' is not part of the request to the server. This '# portion' is a named anchor and will cause the browser to scroll to that anchor if it can find it in the document it requested.

If I take your example url:

Code:

/somethinghere/p-herealso/#bookmark112

the actual request sent to the server would be

Code:

GET /somethinghere/p-herealso/ HTTP/1.1

It is therefore not possible to take any rewrite action on the named anchor since the server does not know about it.