I will attempt to provide some direction. I don't know if it's what you are looking for.

You can test nearly all parts of your application. It's all depends on your test plan.

Simple html sites...

I am stumped. Can't get the following to work. Basically all it is suppose to do is if some calls a hello.html file it should grab the hello.shtml file.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /...