Redirect to full URL with htaccess RewriteRule

Question

I want to load images from production website if they don't exist on my local environment, for that, I have this htaccess rule:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule uploads/(.*)$ http://www.productionserver.com/uploads/$1 [R=302,L,NC]

The problem:

Original URL:

http://localhost:8080/myproject/uploads/image.jpg

Output:

http://localhost:8080/myproject/http://www.productionserver.com/uploads/image.jpg

Desired output:

http://www.productionserver.com/uploads/image.jpg

What must I change in order to achieve that?

Answer 1

The code was correct.

I moved it to the top of my .htaccess file and it worked. Some other rule was interfering with it.

I believe the tool I was using to debug the "Output" was wrong. The tool is: http://htaccess.madewithlove.be

Thanks everyone who replied on the comments.