Trouble rewriting requests to lowercase

I'm moving a site from IIS on Windows to Apache/1.3.36 on Linux and
want to rewrite all requests (excluding any in the cgi-bin) to lower
case to simulate the case insensitivity of Windows. I'll then upload
all site files with lower case names.

Here's what I thought would work:

#VirtualHost section of httpd.conf for the site in question
RewriteMap tolower int:tolower

#.htaccess file in root of site:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cgi-bin [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ${tolower:$1} [NS,L]

Using the above commands seems to cause a 500 error. Could anyone tell
me what commands I should be using?

Using redirects I've been able to verify that the "tolower" map is
working, but I can't figure out how to turn that into a successful
rewrite.

Nick wrote:

> I'm moving a site from IIS on Windows to Apache/1.3.36 on Linux and
> want to rewrite all requests (excluding any in the cgi-bin) to lower
> case to simulate the case insensitivity of Windows. I'll then upload
> all site files with lower case names.

> #VirtualHost section of httpd.conf for the site in question
> RewriteMap tolower int:tolower

> #.htaccess file in root of site:
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cgi-bin [NC]
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ${tolower:$1} [NS,L]


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