Are There Tools To Check HTaccess file?

[narsticle]

i created a htaccess file to try to eliminate query strings being indexed in google. I am not experience in creating this type of file. Are there any tools out there that i can upload my htaccess file to and get an output telling me what exactly it does to ensure i created the file successfully? thanks

[RewriteEngine]

I don't have any experience with any .htaccess validators, but I use an online http viewer that allows me to specify the user-agent. So I just enter

Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

to test what header or content googlebot receives from my server. Try doing a search on "http viewer" in Google

[g1smd]

You need to test the rules by trying to access the site using lots of different types of URL and then seeing what you get back.

The "Live HTTP headers" extension for Mozilla Seamonkey and for Firefox is very helpful.

[narsticle]

thanks guys.