How to redirect a virtual page (e.g. /blog) to the home page?

The redirect has to be a 301, not an internal request. Otherwise WordPress will search dor a page named blog.
And you don’t need mod_rewrite.

# Apache 1.3 needs a complete URL
RedirectMatch Permanent ^/blog$ http://example.com/

# Apache 2.x needs just the path
RedirectMatch Permanent ^/blog$ /

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