Question

I have a web application that serves urls such as…

http://domain.com/#!/this-is-a-parameter

I want to redirect from http://domain.com/this-is-a-parameter to my !# version. I know that htaccess can’t redirect to hashes, so my question is:

How do I make htaccess serve a 404 with my js redirect code, without changing the url? All my attempts have resulted in redirection to 404.html, which strips out the necessary data to perform the redirect.

Answer 1

You want this:

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://domain.com/#!/$1 [L,R,NE]

You need the NE so that the hash doesn’t get encoded.