.htaccess redirect a broken link domain.com/.php

Question

i need to redirect the broken url like

domain.com/.php to domain.com/index.php

anyone know how??i try to use some htaccess generator like

http://htaccessredirect.net/index.php

and get this code but redirect loop/error

i have tried the following code,but not work

Redirect 301 /.php index.php

and also i tried, but error

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^/.php$
RewriteRule ^$ index.php [L,R=301]

Answer 1

You need to escape the period or it becomes part of the regular expression.

Like this:

RewriteRule ^/\.php$ /index.php [L,R=301]

or:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/\.php index.php