ok here goes i have set up wildcard domains on my server i have put the following in my root .htaccess file all wildcard subdomains show fine in the root directory it shows the index.php as first page seen by visitors however, i want to keep the wildcard subdomains as above but in the root directory of the main domain, show index.html instead so i guess i need some sort of conditional rule hope someone can help heres the htaccess file as it is now Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^manage(.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^aggregate(.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^ping(.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^batch(.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^export(.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^templates(.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^favicon.ico(.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ - [L] RewriteRule ^plain.php$ - [L] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L]