Rewriting nginx URL's

Question

I need to setup nginx to rewrite URL's from example.com/page1/page2 to example.com/#page1/page2, in order to make backbone.js´s Routing work.

Basically it's all about the # that needs to be appended after the first slash in the URL to make it work.

But how do I do that? I can't really find any good example online.

The current nginx configuration:

location / {
    root   /var/www/frontend;
    try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrites;
}

location @rewrites {
    rewrite ^/~(.*)/(.*)/? /index.html#$1/$2 last;
}

Answer 1

Since fragment URLs are processed client side, you need to redirect the user with a 301/302. Try the 'permanent' flag

location / {
    root   /var/www/frontend;
    try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrites;
}

location @rewrites {
    rewrite ^/~(.*)/(.*)/? /#$1/$2 permanent;
}