nginx : rewrite rule to remove /index.html from the $request_uri

Question

I\'ve seen a few ways to rewrite the $request_uri and add the index.html to it when that particular file exists in the file system, like so:

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Answer 1

The following config allowed me to redirect /index.html to / and /subdir/index.html to /subdir/:

# Strip "index.html" (for canonicalization)
if ( $request_uri ~ "/index.html" ) {
    rewrite ^(.*)/ $1/ permanent;
}