How to use # in url as a redirect rule in htaccess for apache

Question

I am having a difficult time figuring out how to have the following work:

I am trying to redirect a url in htaccess
I am trying to redirect from example.com/test.html to example.com/index#test

I have the following setup

RewriteRule ^test.html http://www.example.com/index#test [R=301,L,B]

However, it is not working because the browser redirects to http://www.example.com/index%23test and returns a page not found.

I have tried many different flags without success.

Thanks,

This is not possible. A hash (#) is never sent to the server: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5 — zhenech, Jul 11 '14 at 19:11
It is possible. It works the other way around here. The server sends the URL with fragment identifier in the `Location` HTTP header. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2286402/url-fragment-and-302-redirects answer has a more complete description on what happens. — Tero Kilkanen, Jul 12 '14 at 08:30

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 11 '14 at 17:52

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Actually, a friend help me out with this.

RewriteRule ^test.html http://www.example.com/index#test [R=301,NE,L]

edited Jul 11 '14 at 17:52

Andrew Schulman

answered Jul 11 '14 at 16:04

AKKAweb

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