htaccess 301 redirect doesn't work urgent help needed please

[brakkar]

I'm setting htaccess 301 redirects for my entire site page by page. But it doesn't work well and I need urgent help please, here is an example of the line I have:

redirect 301 /pages/info [new...] domain.com/other/thing

doesn't redirect to [newdo...] main.com/other/thing but to [new...] domain.com/pages/info !

Why is this, and how can I have it work redirect to: [new...] domain.com/other/thing ?

Thanks !

[g1smd]

Use RewriteRule for all of your rules. Use the [R=301,L] flags.

You'll have a lot more control over what happens.

[brakkar]

Thanks. it was a problem of order : shorter links on top causing problem with specific pages

so /es would cause problem further down with /es/page

[g1smd]

Single page rules go first.

More general rules go last.

Do not persevere with Redirect or RedirectMatch code.

Change the whole lot to use RewriteRule. It offers a lot more functionality.

[lucy24]

And use example.com to keep the Forums from turning everything into clickable but unreadable links. We need to see what you typed, not go to your site. This applies to anything beginning in http:// --right down to a bare . as in [....] (I did that on purpose to illustrate).

[brakkar]

Thanks.
I have another issue where /de#kaufen doesn't redirect to http://www.example.com/other/page

Seems the special character # is causing an issue as /other/page from target is ignored.

[g1smd]

The # character represents an in-page link and the fragment is NOT sent to the server.

Everything after the # is resolved within the browser.

You can't use it for redirecting.

[lucy24]

Edit: Good grief. Didn't realize how slowly I type :)

Fragments aren't like query strings, which are handled in a specific way by mod_rewrite. Technically they're not even considered part of the URL.

If the Apache docs ever mention fragments, it's buried very deeply. But further exploration leads me to-- woo hoo!-- an entire forum devoted to mod_rewrite. O be still my thundering pulse.

[forum.modrewrite.com...]

The recurring theme-- I puttered around some other places too-- seems to be that the #fragment is never sent to the server in the first place; it's strictly for use by the browser. Which explains why Apache is silent.

So if your rewrite simply doesn't see the #fragment, that would be expected. But if it's doing something else, you have got me curious. Let's see an example of a rule that behaves differently when there's a fragment involved. Does the rule do nothing at all, or does it do something unexpected?