rewrite little fix ?

hey im just starting to learn about mod_rewrite and so far i came up with this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule File/(.*).html$ uploadedfileshere/$1

I want to be able to enter:

File/billing.zip.html

and it will go to a directory called

uploadedfileshere/billing.zip

which it does do, but when downloading billing.zip, it seems to be called billing.zip.html. How can I tell the code that I dont want the .html part to be added?


Thanks

The first thing I notice is that the period in .html$ ought to be escaped with a backslash, like this:

RewriteRule File/(.*)\.html$ uploadedfileshere/$1

See if that makes any difference.

[edit] OK... so the backslash does not seem to appear on the page. It should be positioned between the closing bracket and the period. Press "quote" to see it.

Thanks for the reply, didnt think I was going to get one.

I pressed quote and copied the code you wrote but i think I already tried that; but ethierway it didnt work. You can try yourself here:

http://temp.platinumhost.co.uk/rewrite/File/billing.zip.html

Thanks for your time.