Simple mod_rewrite Question

I have the following rewrite rule:
RewriteRule ^/([^/.]+)\.html$ /loadpage.php?filename=$1

How can I make the server rewrite [filename].html to
loadpage.php?filename=[filename] only when [filename].html does not
exist on the server?

Example: /index.html exists but /page.html does not.
http://www.domain.com/index.html will show /index.html, while
http://www.domain.com/page.html will be rewritten to
/loadpage.php?filename=page because page.html does not exist.

Thanks to anyone who will be willing to help me.

Trevor

trevordixon@gmail.com wrote:
> I have the following rewrite rule:
> RewriteRule ^/([^/.]+)\.html$ /loadpage.php?filename=$1
>
> How can I make the server rewrite [filename].html to
> loadpage.php?filename=[filename] only when [filename].html does not
> exist on the server?

To check for an non-existing file, use a condition:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/([^/.]+)\.html$ /loadpage.php?filename=$1 [L]

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Robert