Use .htaccess to redirect homepage to its permalink

Question

How can I get WordPress to preserve my permalink that I have set for the homepage?

I would like the homepage's URL to be www.example.com/homepage-title, not www.example.com. Its permalink is already set to www.example.com/homepage-title, but on navigation to the site I would like it to redirect to www.example.com/homepage-title instead of www.example.com.

Answer 1

You don’t need mod_rewrite for that, a simple RedirectMatch is enough:

RedirectMatch permanent ^$ /homepage-title

Place the rule above WordPress’ permalink rules.