Goal: only oneserver.com should be forwarded to otherserver.com Problem: also x.com and y.com are forwarded. RewriteEngine on # redirect all to oneserver.biz towards http://www.otherserver.com/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^oneserver\.biz [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.oneserver\.biz [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.otherserver.com/ [L,R] # the others should go for the normal docroot. ServerName www.parked.com ServerAlias oneserver.biz *.oneserver.biz x.com *.x.com y.com *.y.com ServerAdmin webmaster@webmaster.com DocumentRoot /home/parked/public_html RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/stats/?$ /cgi-bin/awstats/awstats.pl [L,R]