How to make a redirect from the main page to the internal one?

Question

htaccess

Good afternoon
I can’t solve this simplest task.
It is necessary that there be a redirect from esk.ru to esk.ru/stati/ I
write the following code in .htaccess:
Redirect http://e-s-k.ru/ http://e-s-k.ru/stati/
but it just loops the redirect and displays such a beard: esk.ru/stati/stati/stati /stati/stati/stati/stati...
Actually, the site is on WP, there is generally a Rewrite registered there, is it possible to drive something there?

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

# END WordPress

How to spell correctly?
Thanks

Answer 1

Add the following to the top of your homepage template:

<?php
    wp_redirect( 'http://e-s-k.ru/stati/', $status );
    exit;
?>

$status is the status of the redirect, use 301, that 's it

Answer 2

Redirect 301 http://e-s-k.ru/ http://e-s-k.ru/stati/

or
Redirect 301 / http://e-s-k.ru/stati/

Answer 3

Подскажите, а как сделать такой редирект, только для авторизованных пользователей?)