What is a best practice for testing htaccess redirects after making changes to prevent 500 errors?

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What is a best practice for testing htaccess redirects after making changes to prevent 500 errors?
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A best practice is to test redirects incrementally. Make one or a few changes at a time, save the .htaccess file, and check the website for errors. If a 500 error occurs, revert the last change. Also, utilize online htaccess testers or Apache's `apachectl configtest` command to pre-validate syntax.