Yandex and 301 redirects are not friends?

Question

Search Engine Optimization

I have a problem with the domain in Yandex webmaster. The server is configured like this:

server {
    server_name www.domain.ru;
    return 301 $scheme://domain.ru$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  domain.ru;
}

The situation is such that Yandex does not want to accept a domain without www as the main one, but also does not want to verify it through a 301 redirect. And I really need users to see the domain without www in the address bar, since it is already very long. And Host in robots.txt does not solve the problem, if I put it without www, I get: "An inconsistent Host directive is set in the robots.txt file."
Why doesn't verification pass through 301 redirects? Variant with meta tags is not suitable.

Answer 1

Make robots.txt accessible without a redirect:

location  ~ ^(/robots.txt|/sitemap.xml|/sitemap_video.xml|/favicon.ico)$ {
           root /var/www/example.com/html;
        }

Answer 2

The final config, which allowed us to send the verification file and robots.txt directly without a redirect:
server {
server_name www.domain.ru;
location / {
return 301 $scheme://domain.ru$request_uri;
}
location ~ ^(/robots.txt|/sitemap.xml|/favicon.ico|/yandex_verification_file.html)$ {
root /var/www/user/domain.ru;
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_logoff;
}
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.ru;
root /var/www/nikolay/domain.ru;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
location ~ ^(/robots.txt|/sitemap.xml|/favicon.ico) {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_logoff;
}
...
}

Answer 3

In general, it is better to write such questions directly to the Webmaster's support.