Hi! This same question has been posed about a billion times in just as many forums and I can't seem to find a clean workaround hence I really need an apache ninja who can answer this htaccess question. Problem: I need the htaccess to manage the following: 1. redirect all non www traffic to www (i.e. http://mydomain.com becomes http://www.mydomain.com) 2. I need traffic from the static ip address of the server routed to the http://www address (i.e. 192.192.192.192 becomes http://www.mydomain.com) 3. I need HTTPS forced in 2 directories not files (i.e. http://www.mydomain.com/ssldir/ becomes https://www.mydomain.com/ssldir/) 4. I need all other files & domains (except those specified above) to be http Here is what I have so far. This works (for the most part) but will not comply with step 4 above. Example - if i clicked from one of the specific SSL directories onto the root domain, I would still have https. If I clicked onto a non SSL directory, it would have SSL: ***BEGIN*** #Force SSL on ssl-one directory RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ssl-one RewriteRule ^ssl-one/(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/ssl-one/$1? [L,R=301] #Force SSL on ssl-two directory RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ssl-two RewriteRule ^ssl-two/(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/ssl-two/$1? [L,R=301] #Redirect static IP to URL RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^999.999.999.999$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] #Redirect non WWW traffic to WWW RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] ***END*** I found that I can adhere to requirement 4 above ON DIRECTORIES ONLY if I use this code in there below the first two requests: #Disable SSL on non-ssl directory RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} non-ssl RewriteRule ^non-ssl/(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/non-ssl/$1? [L,R=301] Why this can't work is there are a ton of directories and it wouldn't make sense to do a reqrite for each of them. SO - the question is, how do I accomplosh all of the above + make the HTACCESS file the most search engine friendly?