> - Create new directives RewriteToPath, RewriteToURL that don't do guessing. > - Document clearly the problems that may be caused by the guessing > behaviour of RewriteRule. Maybe even mark RewriteRule as deprecated in > 2.4. >
another one on users@, +1 to this approach and strong advice in the manual to use one of the other flavors. Rewriterule in per-server context could emit a once-per-restart warning if it interprets a substitution as a filesystem path. If it triggers a 403 from <Directory /> inadvertently, it will precede the "permission denied by server configuration" in the error log.
