.htaccess redirect my site gives internal error -

i trying first time make .htaccess file. @ start make redirect, if person writes:

https://example.com/robots.txt

the person redirected

https://example.com

i made file, , added following code:

redirect 301 https://example.com/robots.txt/ https://example.com/index.php

i tried with:

redirectmatch 301 ^/bonus https://example.com/robots.txt redirectmatch 301 ^/ https://example.com/

which both resulted in site got internal error. how correct way that?

i'm not 100% sure why want direct away robots.txt file stop search engine crawlers accessing file... can using this:

redirect 301 /robots.txt /index.php

or, try this:

redirect 301 /robots.txt https://www.example.com/

to rid of www use this:

rewriteengine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.example.com$ [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [r=301,l]

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