title: .htaccess created or modified: do I have to restart Apache?
body: <p>I am trying to debug some .htaccess problems on Apache but I am new to mod_rewrite.c. I would like to know whether I need to restart Apache in XAMPP whenever I make modifications to the .htaccess files, or whether these are parsed and applied whenever a web page is served independently of whether Apache is restarted.</p>