A few lines of .htaccess: mod_rewrite non-existant *.html files

I stored all *.html files for some domains in a non-web-accessible folder which is also not the apache document root. I need to let these *.html pages where they are, but still want to serve them with Apache, without revealing any redirection to the public (no 404 or other error/redirect/moved messages in the header) Example [login to view URL] does not exist. Apache serves it nonetheless (without 404 or other error messages) by rewriting the whole part after [login to view URL] internally to /full/path/to/somedirectory/NON/EXISTING/[login to view URL] In case the *.html file doesn't exist in that other location (/full/path/to/somedirectory/NON/EXISTING/[login to view URL]) either, then I'd expect it to just serve the standard 404 page This .htaccess should cover all missing .html files only. ## Deliverables Fully-functional .htaccess file based on mod_rewrite, working on both Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.0 ## Platform Linux and Apache 1.3 & 2.0