I have a form on a page (built using WordPress FormBuilder plugin).


On successful submission the page refreshes with this URL (the same page but with a placemarker added at the end of the URL string):

http://www.mysite.com/dev/contact#formBuilderCSSIDGet_a_Quote

and a message "Thank you for submitting.."


But what I really want it to do is redirect to a completely new page, called

http://www.mysite.com/success

So I tried adding the following line at the bottom of my .htaccess file

redirect 301 /dev/contact#formBuilderCSSIDGet_a_Quote http://www.mysite.com/dev/success

Now if I understand correctly, the way to test this would be to enter the URL string

http://mysite.com/dev/contact#formBu...SIDGet_a_Quote

into the browser bar and if the 301 is working it should automatically redirect to

http://www.mysite.com/success

But that isnt happening. It stays on

http://www.mysite.com/dev/contact#fo...SIDGet_a_Quote

It's on a LINUX server of course.


Any ideas?

The document fragment marker '#' is a client side operation ONLY and is not seen or acted upon by the server.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

The document fragment marker '#' is a client side operation ONLY and is not seen or acted upon by the server.

I see.
Well that screws that plan, then.

Well have to dig into the plugin then and see if I can give it a PHP header redirect maybe.

Can someone please explain to me what 301 stands for?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes says it's 'Moved Permanently'. Google is a good friend of mine