nginx redirect loop, remove index.php from url

Question

I want any requests like http://example.com/whatever/index.php, to do a 301 redirect to http://example.com/whatever/.

I tried adding:

Answer 1

Try that

location ~ /*/index.php {
    rewrite ^/(.*)/(.*) http://www.votre_domaine.com/$1 permanent;
}
location /index.php {
    return 301 http://www.example.com/;
}