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

If you already have first line mentioned below in your Nginx configuration file you don't have rewrite it again.

index index.php index.html index.htm;

rewrite ^(/.).html(?.)?$ $1$2 permanent;

rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 permanent;

try_files $uri/index.html $uri.html $uri/ $uri =404;

This will remove .html from the URL and additionally will also remove "index" from home page or index page. For example - https://www.example.com/index will be changed to https://www.example.com