Roger,

how are the URLs in your application being generated?  The Views or embedded elements showing doclinks will use the full path.  You will have to compute the URLs yourself with something like:

"http://" + @Lowercase(SERVER_NAME) + "/manual/xxxx"

It looks like the redirect is doing exactly what you're telling it -- any string matching /manual/* should instead go to -- and display the URL for -- /local/mydb.nsf/*. You'd use a redirect when something gets moved and you need to get the user to the new place.

I think maybe you want /local/mydb.nsf/ to be the database "underneath" but have the displayed URL show /manual? We have less experience with these vs. redirects, but you could try changing this from a redirect to a substitution. The substitution displays a different URL in the browser bar from what the actual page is.