This directive is equivalent to 
Suppose the local server has address http://example.com/;
+    then
will cause a local request for
+    http://example.com/mirror/foo/bar.gif to be internally converted
+    into a proxy request to http://backend.example.com/foo/bar.gif.
The ! directive is useful in situations where you don't want
+    to reverse-proxy a subdirectory.