Question

I am porting a lot of content from flat file site to WordPress and have my .htaccess redirect for each page as follows:

redirect 301 /01-chapter1.html  http://www.mydomain.com/section1/chapter-1/

Within this content there are a number of anchor links defined as follows:

<a name="106">Link 106</a>

My question is, will the redirect above also handle these anchor links so that old page anchor:

http://www.mydomain.com/01-chapter1.html#106

gets redirected to new page anchor:

http://www.mydomain.com/section1/chapter-1/#106

Hope it does and that I do not have to implement separate redirects for thousands of anchors 🙁

Many thanks in advance for your advice.

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ANSWER

Well I implemented the original redirect I posted:

redirect 301 /01-chapter1.html  http://www.mydomain.com/section1/chapter-1/

Tested this FF/IE/Chrome and for whatever reason the redirect seems to be behaving exactly as I hoped without any additional parameters.

external links to:

http://www.mydomain.com/01-chapter1.html#106

are redirecting perfectly to the in page anchor links:

http://www.mydomain.com/section-1/chapter-1/#106

Thanks for the good advice anyway but so far so good!

Answer 1

Sadly, it does not do that. Check out this blog post:
http://www.mikeduncan.com/named-anchors-are-not-sent/

You can try to redirect client-side with JavaScript instead.

edit: More information:

The 301 Redirect Cheatsheet shows many redirection options. When combined with the information gleaned from Can you write a 301 redirect to an anchor point?, means that we can write something like:

RewriteRule ^01-chapter1.html(#.+)?$ /section1/chapter-1/$1 [R=301,NE]

Not really sure of the regex syntax though, might need something else.