problem with alias directive and tomcat

please help,

i had the following set up working in with apache 2.0.40 and tomcat
4.1.24 on linux 7.22 where apache would serve static html from within
/myapp context to $TOMCAT_HOME/appl/myapp/cache/html. but when i
migrated to apache 2.0.43, tomcat started serving the html i assume
because the url is in the /myapp application context. is there a
better was to serve static html outside of the
$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/myapp directory?:

httpd.conf:
Include $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/jk/mod_jk.conf

mod_jk.conf:
Alias /myapp/appl/myapp/cache/html $TOMCAT_HOME/appl/myapp/cache/html


thanks in advance,
remz