On 12/10/2010 12:04 PM, Bob Meetin wrote: > Into the .htaccess I added various flavors of: > > RewriteRule 174.121.22.85/~the_account/ http://the_live_domain.com > [R=301,L] > > RewriteCond ^174.121$ > RewriteRule $ http://the_live_domain.com [R=301,L] > > This latter is a total failure. > > -Bob The IP/host isn't part of what RewriteRule and RewriteCond look at (though you can tell at least RewriteCond to), but I don't think you need mod_rewrite here anyway. How about going simpler? RedirectPermanent /~the_account/ http://the_live_domain.com/ This assumes you don't actually access http://the_live_domain.com/~the_account/