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

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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: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier, tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5 — zhenech, Jul 11, 2014 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. stackoverflow.com/questions/2286402/… answer has a more complete description on what happens. — Tero Kilkanen, Jul 12, 2014 at 8:30

Andrew Schulman · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-11 17:52:46Z

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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]

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answered Jul 11, 2014 at 16:04

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