Replacing specific character in a file name when using reverse proxy

That’s quite an old version. Please upgrade to the latest, 2.7.6

Is that really your entire config? It looks incomplete.

I would write the regexp like this maybe:

@facetiles path_regexp facetiles ^/tiles/faces/\.(.*)$
rewrite @facetiles /tiles/faces/{re.facetiles.1}

Enable the debug global option and show your logs. It’ll show the rewrites that happen (original path and rewritten path).