[users@httpd] DocumentRoot overrides ReWrite

[Andrew Garnett <an...@yahoo.co.uk>]

Excuse my ignorance as I get to grips with Apache.
I've tried all the resources I could but they don't
quite answer this.

I have a plain server, one IP address on Apache
2.0.42, no Virtual Hosts set up, default DocumentRoot.
This works OK with most things, but I want to catch
anything containing the string ".nsf" and rewrite it
to send a proxy request to a Domino HTTP server.
( e.g. http://hostname/dbase.nsf/index.htm proxies to
http://domsrv/dbase.nsf/index.htm )

I've written the rules (below), and in messing about
with creating virtual hosts I have actually seen the
rule working OK, so I think the syntax is fine.

However, without VHs I am getting HTTP-404 for these
pages.

the rewrite log shows nothing, whereas the access log
shows that the requests are being served (and failed)
from the DocumentRoot. 

I thought the Rewrite would rewrite ALL URIs , but it
seems that the DocumentRoot is being checked first.

Is there an order of precedence, or am I missing
something simple ?
Thanks,  A
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Listen 8088
ServerName bend-iface
UseCanonicalName Off
DocumentRoot "D:/IBMHTTPServer2042/htdocs/en_US"
<Directory "D:/IBMHTTPServer2042/htdocs/en_US">
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>
ProxyRequests on
RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog "c:\myrewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^80$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(.+)(\.nsf/)(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.+)  http://domsrv1:80/$1  [P]

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