.htaccess not letting robot.txt through

Question

I have the following .htaccess file in my root:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(\?.*)?$ $1$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ index.php?page=$1 [NC]

This works as it should for shortening all my URLs to website.com/something

The problem is Google can't find my robots.txt file in my root. The above file isn't letting it through. when It type website.com/robots.txt I get a 404 not found. But if I comment out the above .htaccess code I can get to it just fine.

How can I edit my .htaccess file to let robots.txt through without interfering with my other URLs?

Answer 1

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^robots.txt - [L]

Second line will exclude robots.txt from URL rewritting rules . Try above code