Requested url was: http://my.sever.com/viewFullItem$123 Rewrite log level 9: 0.0.0.0 - - [21/Feb/2008:13:00:43 --0600] [my.server.com/sid#8e90cc0][rid#90377c0/initial] (3) [per-dir /path/to/] strip per-dir prefix: /path/to/viewFullItem23 -> viewFullItem23 0.0.0.0 - - [21/Feb/2008:13:00:43 --0600] [my.server.com/sid#8e90cc0][rid#90377c0/initial] (3) [per-dir /path/to/] applying pattern 'viewFullItem(.*)' to uri 'viewFullItem23' 0.0.0.0 - - [21/Feb/2008:13:00:43 --0600] [my.server.com/sid#8e90cc0][rid#90377c0/initial] (2) [per-dir /path/to/] rewrite viewFullItem23 -> http://other.server.com/viewFullItem23 0.0.0.0 - - [21/Feb/2008:13:00:43 --0600] [my.server.com/sid#8e90cc0][rid#90377c0/initial] (2) [per-dir /path/to/] explicitly forcing redirect with http://other.server.com/viewFullItem23 0.0.0.0 - - [21/Feb/2008:13:00:43 --0600] [my.server.com/sid#8e90cc0][rid#90377c0/initial] (1) [per-dir /path/to/] escaping http://other.server.com/viewFullItem23 for redirect 0.0.0.0 - - [21/Feb/2008:13:00:43 --0600] [my.server.com/sid#8e90cc0][rid#90377c0/initial] (1) [per-dir /path/to/] redirect to http://other.server.com/viewFullItem23 [REDIRECT/301] And the access_log: 0.0.0.0 - - [21/Feb/2008:13:00:43 --0600] "HEAD /path/to/viewFullItem23 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "curl/7.15.4 (i686-pc-cygwin) libcurl/7.15.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3"