Apache ProxyPass or ProxyPassMatch to exclude a file from proxying

Question

I have a VirtualHost set to proxy all requests to another server running on port 9000.

What I have :

ProxyPass / http://localhost:9000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:9000/

What I've tried :

! ProxyPass /test.html http://localhost:9000/
ProxyPass /test.html ! http://localhost:9000/
ProxyPassMatch !^/(.*\.html)$ http://localhost:9000/$1 

None of which worked...

I'd like to exclude a file or a set of files from being proxied, the documentation says something about "The ! directive is useful in situations where you don't want to reverse-proxy a subdirectory.", but there are no examples for that situation.

Answer 1

Ok, figured it out, turns out that - obviously - there's no need to specify the proxy for excluded paths.

ProxyPass /somedir !

works great