Your problem is not due to mod_rewrite. It is most probably an access control
problem.
I "almost" managed to reproduce it by adding the following lines to my test
config:
ErrorDocument 403 /docs/FORBIDDEN
<Proxy *>
Deny from all
</Proxy>
What troubles me a little bit is that I do see the rewrite log message
"go-ahead with proxy request" in my logs, whereas it does not appear in
yours... On the other hand you may have edited the logs you posted.
150.175.32.163 - - [25/Aug/2005:10:06:37 +0200]
[labelle16.foo.bar/sid#16d060][rid#238ec8/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with
requested uri /docs/123456
150.175.32.163 - - [25/Aug/2005:10:06:37 +0200]
[labelle16.foo.bar/sid#16d060][rid#238ec8/initial] (3) applying pattern
'^/docs/?$' to uri '/docs/123456'
150.175.32.163 - - [25/Aug/2005:10:06:37 +0200]
[labelle16.foo.bar/sid#16d060][rid#238ec8/initial] (3) applying pattern
'^/docs/index' to uri '/docs/123456'
150.175.32.163 - - [25/Aug/2005:10:06:37 +0200]
[labelle16.foo.bar/sid#16d060][rid#238ec8/initial] (3) applying pattern
'^/docs/sitemap' to uri '/docs/123456'
150.175.32.163 - - [25/Aug/2005:10:06:37 +0200]
[labelle16.foo.bar/sid#16d060][rid#238ec8/initial] (3) applying pattern
'^/docsum' to uri '/docs/123456'
150.175.32.163 - - [25/Aug/2005:10:06:37 +0200]
[labelle16.foo.bar/sid#16d060][rid#238ec8/initial] (3) applying pattern
'^/docs/([0-9]{6})$' to uri '/docs/123456'
150.175.32.163 - - [25/Aug/2005:10:06:37 +0200]
[labelle16.foo.bar/sid#16d060][rid#238ec8/initial] (2) rewrite /docs/123456 ->
http://db.jhuccp.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fdb.jhuccp.org%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fexec%2Fdbtwpcgi.exe&QF0=DocNo%&QI0=123456&TN=Popline&AC=QBE_QUERY&MR=30%DL=1&&RL=1&&RF=LongRecordDisplay&DF=LongRecordDisplay
150.175.32.163 - - [25/Aug/2005:10:06:37 +0200]
[labelle16.foo.bar/sid#16d060][rid#238ec8/initial] (3) split
uri=http://db.jhuccp.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fdb.jhuccp.org%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fexec%2Fdbtwpcgi.exe&QF0=DocNo%&QI0=123456&TN=Popline&AC=QBE_QUERY&MR=30%DL=1&&RL=1&&RF=LongRecordDisplay&DF=LongRecordDisplay
-> uri=http://db.jhuccp.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe,
args=BU=http%3A%2F%2Fdb.jhuccp.org%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fexec%2Fdbtwpcgi.exe&QF0=DocNo%&QI0=123456&TN=Popline&AC=QBE_QUERY&MR=30%DL=1&&RL=1&&RF=LongRecordDisplay&DF=LongRecordDisplay
150.175.32.163 - - [25/Aug/2005:10:06:37 +0200]
[labelle16.foo.bar/sid#16d060][rid#238ec8/initial] (2) forcing proxy-throughput
with http://db.jhuccp.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe
150.175.32.163 - - [25/Aug/2005:10:06:37 +0200]
[labelle16.foo.bar/sid#16d060][rid#238ec8/initial] (1) go-ahead with proxy
request proxy:http://db.jhuccp.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe [OK]
150.175.32.163 - - [25/Aug/2005:10:06:37 +0200]
[labelle16.foo.bar/sid#16d060][rid#23a680/initial/redir#1] (2) init rewrite
engine with requested uri /docs/FORBIDDEN
[...]
I also simplified the rewrite rules a little bit, and un-escaped the proxy URL
(to the best of my ability)
RewriteRule ^/docs/?$ /docs/index.html
RewriteRule ^/docs/index - [L] #If this
matches, don't do any rewriting
RewriteRule ^/docs/sitemap - [L] #If this
matches, don't do any rewriting. For Google sitemap program
RewriteRule ^/docsum - [L] #If this
matches, don't do any rewriting
RewriteRule ^/docs/([0-9]{6})$
http://db.jhuccp.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe?BU=http://db.jhuccp.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe&QF0=DocNo%&QI0=$1&TN=Popline&AC=QBE_QUERY&MR=30%DL=1&&RL=1&&RF=LongRecordDisplay&DF=LongRecordDisplay
[P]
RewriteRule ^/docs/[0-9]{4} - [L] #If this
matches, don't do any rewriting
RewriteRule .* http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/basic.html [R,L]
-ascs
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