How can I do this? (mod_rewrite)

JonD · 26 Sep 2006 at 15:48

I have sum links on the main page:

/news/2
/news/5
/news/12

Now I want it so when a user clicks one of these links, they are taken to the news page and then taken to the anchor (named 2, 5 or 12).

I thought this would work but it isnt. I guess the # is starting a comment so how can I escape that?

RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?p=news#$1

( basically trying to get '?p=news#2' -> '/news/2' )

Thx

toastyman · 26 Sep 2006 at 15:53

Have you tried putting a \ in front of the hash? That's normally your standard escape character...

robmiller · 26 Sep 2006 at 16:27

This will 100% not work. The fragment―the bit after the hash―is strictly client side, and without it in the URL the client won't skip down the page to the named element.

Ed · 26 Sep 2006 at 16:30

During mod_rewrite, Apache will escape the hash regardless. You'll need to either code around it or use a non parsable header script, more of which can be seen over at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/rewriteguide.html. Lookup 'Extended Redirection' as it's the same thing.