Wordpress rewrite : Redirect page to Home page

Question

I have a wp page with the url, http://mydomain.com/home/ . I would like redirect it to http://mydomain.com/ using htaccess.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^home/$ index.php [L]    #This is my attempt to redirect; not working.
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

Write rule outside the default wp htaccess rules set. Try below:

RewriteRule ^home/(.*) http://mydomain.com/$ [L]

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 2

Just set the Home page to your front page in wordpress reading settings. That should do it without apache mod_rewrite

Answer 3

Use 301 redirect, is permanent and is good for SEO

RedirectMatch 301 ^/home($|/.*) $1

Tested this on my localhost :)

/home /home/ /home/?blahblah

this all redirects to / preserving the right portion query strings