RewritingURL with Tomcat3.2.1

[Lessault Jean-Luc]

Hi all,
I am using Tomcat 3.2.1 with Apache 1.3
and I have the following problem:


  I want to rewrite a path from a form like  'http://host:port/file.html'   
  to something like
'http://host:port/ContextServlet/MyServletName?parameter=file.html').
  (Note that  the program works when i use the  second URL form in the
browser).
  So that, as it seems that Tomcat doesn't want to use .htaccess file, I
decided 
  to write the following instructions:
     
    LoadModule rewrite_module module/mod_rewrite.dll
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteBase /ContextServlet/
     RewriteRule ^file.html
/ContextServlet/MyServletName?parameter=file.html.
    </IfModule>

   in tomcat.conf or server.xml but with no result.  
   
 Any help will be greatly appreciate.