[users@httpd] ProxyPass issues

[kent stand]

Hello,

I am setting up a VirtualHost which passes most of its traffic to another server instance via ProxyPass, but reserves some requests for that VirtualHost. The issue is that all of the traffic is being proxied, despite the directives I set:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.example.tld
  DocumentRoot /home/user/public_directory/
  ProxyPass /directory/ !
  ProxyPass /file !
  Alias /directory/ /home/user/directory/
  ProxyPreserveHost     On
  ProxyPass / http://localhost:5959/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:5959/
</VirtualHost>

I am using Apache/2.0.55. Unfortunately, no matter how I order or word (with or without backslashes) the ProxyPass directives, the requests are never handled by Apache2. Am I perhaps overlooking some fundamental aspect of ProxyPass?

Thanks,
Kent S.