title: Apache - how to disable browser caching while debugging htaccess
body: <p>I'm trying to debug an .htaccess file. FireFox keeps caching redirects and I can't get around them. Normally I would hit Ctrl + F5, but because it has already redirected me to another page, that just refreshes the page I was sent to and not the url I typed in. Is there a way to force a refresh of a url?</p>
  
  <p>Here's an example:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Redirect example.com/hi to example.com/hello, test in FireFox and it works</li>
  <li>Remove this line from .htaccess</li>
  <li>Type example.com/hi in FireFox, it still redirects to example.com/hello</li>
  <li>Type example.com/hi in Chrome, it does not redirect</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>This is why I think it's a browser caching issue, not server caching.</p>
  
  <p>Edit: This seems to be FireFox specific, a quick solution is to use Chrome instead. The cache expired after an hour, which is way too long when trying to debug.</p>