Is it possible to 301 redirect anchors to a new site using .htaccess? #140

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jonah · 2016-12-30T06:13:19Z

privacytoolsIO commented

2016-12-30 06:13:19 +00:00

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Example:
https://www.privacytools.io/#vpn

Redirect to a new folder:
https://www.privacytools.io/vpn/

Just in case we split the website into more sub pages.

Example: https://www.privacytools.io/#vpn Redirect to a new folder: https://www.privacytools.io/vpn/ Just in case we split the website into more sub pages.

joas8211 commented

2016-12-30 07:21:20 +00:00

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You cannot use .htaccess or PHP or anything in the host side to manipulate the fragment. Fragment is not sent to the server by default.

You can use javascript to redirect based on fragment.

if (document.location.hash.length > 0) {
  document.location.href = document.location.hash.substr(1);
}

But you cannot do 301 redirect using anchors unless you send the anchor to the server.

if (document.location.hash.substr(1).length > 0) {
    var form = document.createElement("form");
    form.method = "POST";
    var input = document.createElement("input");
    input.name = "fragment";
    input.value = document.location.hash.substr(1);
    document.location.hash = "";
    form.appendChild(input);
    form.submit();
}

if (isset($_POST["fragment"])) {
    header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); 
    header("Location: " . $_POST["fragment"]);
}

You cannot use .htaccess or PHP or anything in the host side to manipulate the fragment. Fragment is not sent to the server by default. You can use javascript to redirect based on fragment. ```javascript if (document.location.hash.length > 0) { document.location.href = document.location.hash.substr(1); } ``` But you cannot do 301 redirect using anchors unless you send the anchor to the server. ```javascript if (document.location.hash.substr(1).length > 0) { var form = document.createElement("form"); form.method = "POST"; var input = document.createElement("input"); input.name = "fragment"; input.value = document.location.hash.substr(1); document.location.hash = ""; form.appendChild(input); form.submit(); } ``` ```php if (isset($_POST["fragment"])) { header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: " . $_POST["fragment"]); } ```

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Vincevrp commented

2019-01-18 14:49:20 +00:00

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Closing this since we're hosted on Github pages, which doesn't support editing .htaccess.

Closing this since we're hosted on Github pages, which doesn't support editing `.htaccess`.

privacytoolsIO commented

2019-04-01 03:03:34 +00:00

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I'm late, but thanks @joas8211

We'll look into it now.

I'm late, but thanks @joas8211 We'll look into it now.

jonah commented

2019-04-01 03:04:30 +00:00

We don't want to use Javascript. We have full nginx control so let's look into redirects there.

privacytoolsIO commented

2019-04-01 03:04:49 +00:00

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Closing this since we're hosted on Github pages, which doesn't support editing .htaccess.

We just moved away from GitHub pages. Let's see what we can do

> Closing this since we're hosted on Github pages, which doesn't support editing `.htaccess`. We just moved away from GitHub pages. Let's see what we can do

jonah commented

2019-04-01 03:07:07 +00:00

Actually, we may need to use Javascript on second thought if we wish to preserve the /#vpn, etc links after switching to multiple pages, since the browser doesn't send hash fragments to the server at all 🙁

Which I now see was brought up in the second comment.

Actually, we may need to use Javascript on second thought if we wish to preserve the `/#vpn`, etc links after switching to multiple pages, since the browser doesn't send hash fragments to the server at all 🙁 Which I now see was brought up in the second comment.

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