Why is Apache's RewriteRule revealing local paths?

Question

I\'m trying to use RewriteRules in .htaccess with relative paths, but Apache seems to want to output the physical path instead of the s

Answer 1

Try this and tell me the result:
# this doesn't work... 127.0.0.1/wx redirects to 127.0.0.1/C:/path/to/files/yz

RewriteRule ^wx$ /yz [R]

put / before yz.