Posted by Michael Winter on 12/10/05 17:18

On 09/12/2005 20:38, draphael wrote:

> Is there such a thing as an .htaccess validator?

Not to my knowledge, but the server will check the syntax as it parses
it. Unfortunately, that does mean you'll have to wait until a request to
that path, or deeper, causes the server to inspect the file.

> My error log shows a problem in my .htaccess file, and I haven't been
> successful in finding it.
>
> (the error reads: [Mon Dec 5 20:12:47 2005] [alert] [client 65.65.96.190]
> /home/mysite/public_html/.htaccess: Redirect to non-URL)

The URL argument to a Redirect or RedirectMatch directive isn't a valid,
absolute URL. For instance,

Redirect /foo /bar

will produce that error because /bar is only a path, which isn't sufficient.

Redirect /foo http://www.example.com/bar

on the other hand, will correctly map requests for

/foo/...

to

http://www.example.com/bar/...

Mike

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