How to use htaccess to rewrite url to html anchor tag (#)

Question

I have a situation where I want to take the following URL:

/1/john

and have it redirect using Apache\'s htaccess file to go to

/page.php?id=1&na

Answer 1

This is possible using [NE] flag (noescape).

By default, special characters, such as & and ?, for example, will be converted to their hexcode equivalent. Using the [NE] flag prevents that from happening.

More info http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/flags.html#flag_ne