diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index fd7b1781..a8fdc999 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 14 Feb 2010 - 2.5.13-dev1
 -------------------------
 
+ * Remove the ability to use a relative path to a piped audit logger
+   (i.e. mlogc) as Apache does not support it in their piped loggers
+   and it was breaking Windows and probably other platforms that
+   use spaces in filesystem paths.  Discovered by Tom Donovan.
+
  * Fix memory leak freeing regex.  Discovered by Tom Donovan.
 
  * Fix some portability issues on Windows.
diff --git a/apache2/apache2_config.c b/apache2/apache2_config.c
index 153d5cb1..c89cbd65 100644
--- a/apache2/apache2_config.c
+++ b/apache2/apache2_config.c
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ static const char *cmd_audit_log(cmd_parms *cmd, void *_dcfg, const char *p1)
     dcfg->auditlog_name = (char *)p1;
 
     if (dcfg->auditlog_name[0] == '|') {
-        const char *pipe_name = ap_server_root_relative(cmd->pool, dcfg->auditlog_name + 1);
+        const char *pipe_name = dcfg->auditlog_name + 1;
         piped_log *pipe_log;
 
         pipe_log = ap_open_piped_log(cmd->pool, pipe_name);
diff --git a/doc/modsecurity2-apache-reference.xml b/doc/modsecurity2-apache-reference.xml
index f3ba970f..eef40c5d 100644
--- a/doc/modsecurity2-apache-reference.xml
+++ b/doc/modsecurity2-apache-reference.xml
@@ -673,6 +673,13 @@ SecAuditLogStorageDir logs/audit
       configure and use the ModSecurity Log Collector (mlogc) and use the
       following format for the audit log:</para>
 
+      <note>
+        <para>Prior to 2.5.13 you may have been able to use a relative path to
+        a piped logger command, but this was broken on some platforms and the
+        feature was removed in 2.5.13 to make the platforms more
+        consitent.</para>
+      </note>
+
       <para><programlisting format="linespecific">SecAuditLog "|/path/to/mlogc /path/to/mlogc.conf"</programlisting></para>
     </section>