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I have a path of the format www.example.com/aaa and www.example.com/aaa#bbb and I want to redirect it to www.example.com

I tried: 

if ($uri ~ ^/(.*)(#.*)?) {
    rewrite ^/(.*)(#.*)? / permanent;
}

I even tried #. It seems to go inside if block. It replaces the first part, but the second part is appended to url. The new url becomes like www.example.com/#bbb

Joaquin
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The hash in a URL (the portion of the URL following the #) is not sent in the HTTP request by design. Therefore, nginx can't do anything about it. When a user visits http://example.com/#aaa, nginx only sees a request for http://example.com

One potential workaround is to use Javascript on the front-end to remove the hash from the URL. Another Stack Overflow question describes how to do this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4508751/3474615

Zach Bloomquist
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