How to debug htaccess rewrite script

Question

I was wondering how to create and debug this kind of script that can become a bit of headache if you are not used to write them (like me).

Do you use tool to create

Answer 1

You can set RewriteLog directive in your virtualhost configuration It will write necessary info to the file specified by you.

RewriteLog "/usr/local/var/apache/logs/rewrite.log"

Further, use RewriteLogLevel directive to control the amount of logging

RewriteLogLevel 3

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