this is probably some common stuff, but it's quite driving me mad since I have a little experience with redirections I'm trying to redirect test1.gamershrine.com to google.com ,just for test. If you visit my subdomain ..you'll notice that it doesn't forward you I've searched here a bit and found that I probably have to modify .htaccess it's here RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test1.gamershrine.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.test1.gamershrine.com$ RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.google\.com" [R=301,L] what to modify? don't wanna play with fire