hello i have the following rewrite working fine RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mystring\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule .? http://mystring.wordpress.com [R=301,L] EXCEPT when the request is for one of the paths below http://www.mystring.com/forum http://www.mystring.com/forum/ http://mystring.com/forum http://mystring.com/forum/ presumably because the folder "forum" exists in the apache wwwroot. how would i make it always redirect (even if i have to manually code "forum" in a condition) ? thanks in advance.