not sure if this is Condition or Virtual Sites issue

I'm not sure if this issue should be addressed here, or in the Condition queue. I have set a condition, called 'dotnet', with Requirement: Hostname, Only on listed hostname, "crypticsites.net". At my server's Cpanel, I have setup a redirect, to always redirect crypticsites.net to crypticsites.com (where my Drupal, Condition, and Virtual Sites is installed). So, the redirect works; I put http://crypticsites.net into the address line and it goes to crypticsites.com -- but the Condition isn't working; it's not triggering the Virtual Site; is it because the .net is being redirected to the .com before it ever gets to Drupal? If so, how do I address that problem?

I don't know *anything* about "symbolic links," so if it has something to do with that, PLEASE be completely explicit with directions for how I would set that up. I think my host will allow SSH access on a per-case basis, but since I've never done anything with SSH, I don't know anything about that either; command-line OS is not new to me since I used to be very expert with DOS before Windows took over the world, but I don't know the first thing about the Unix/Linux command line syntax.

Can you help? (and if this is misplaced and should be in the Condition queue, please excuse, but it seemed to pertain to implementing the Virtual Sites module).

Thx,
Andria