Removing # from end of url

Removing traling # from of url including any subdomain

[tsarma]

how can I rewrite

*.example.com/#

to

*.example.com

Just to remove hash '#' for example.com url including any sub domain

[g1smd]

You can't. The # is wholly evaluated inside the browser.

It is not sent to the server as a part of the request.

[tsarma]

Thanks for making it clear. it makes a sense. But what if I have say word "root" instead of #, how would then rewrite it.

[lucy24]

I think you need to ask your question in more words. I'm not clear whether you are asking about the literal strings "#" or "root", or if you mean something else.

You can't use real domain names, but you can give the rest of the path as an example. Are you now asking how to redirect "www.example.com/foobar" to "www.example.com" alone?
Or how to get rid of "index.html"?

[tsarma]

Yes I want to redirect "www.example.com/foobar" to "www.example.com" and also it should apply for all the subdomain of example.com. Like
A.example.com/foobar to A.example.com
B.example.com/foobar to B.example.com

[g1smd]

In htaccess:

DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(robots\.txt|index\.php)
RewriteRule ^(.+) http://%{HTTP_HOST}/? [R=301,L]

In httpd.conf replace

^(.+)

with

^/(.+)

No pages, images, stylesheets or files will be accessible other than robots.txt and index.php (accessed by requesting "/").

If you do need access to other stuff, change the (.+) pattern to be more specific, perhaps selecting URLs with specific extensions to redirect.

[tsarma]

Thanks a lot, In my case

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/root
RewriteRule ^(.+) http://%{HTTP_HOST}/? [R=301,L] 

worked

[lucy24]

If you're only looking at one specific file, put it in the Rule and you won't need a Condition.

RewriteRule ^root http:// ... et cetera

Matter of fact, if you're not changing the host, you could even do something you normally wouldn't do:

RewriteRule ^root / [R=301,L]

The server will replace / with the existing protocol and domain, whatever they might happen to be.

[g1smd]

If you do that, be aware that the pattern should be

!^root

as the code is supposed to redirect all other requests.

I would caution against redirecting requests for robots.txt. Either return a valid

robots.txt

file or 404.

[tsarma]

Thanks guys very informative