Tips for debugging .htaccess rewrite rules

Question

Many posters have problems debugging their RewriteRule and RewriteCond statements within their .htaccess files. Most of these are using a shar

Answer 1

as pointed out by @JCastell, the online tester does a good job of testing individual redirects against an .htaccess file. However, more interesting is the api exposed which can be used to batch test a list of urls using a json object. However, to make it more useful, I have written a small bash script file which makes use of curl and jq to submit a list of urls and parse the json response into a CSV formated output with the line number and rule matched in the htaccess file along with the redirected url, making it quite handy to compare a list of urls in a spreadsheet and quickly determine which rules are not working.