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

For the root /index.html, the answer from Nicolas resulted in a redirect loop, so I had to search for other answers.

This question was asked on the nginx forums and the answer there worked better. http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,217899,217915

Use either

location = / {
  try_files /index.html =404;
}

location = /index.html {
  internal;
  error_page 404 =301 $scheme://domain.com/;
}

or

location = / {
  index index.html;
}

location = /index.html {
  internal;
  error_page 404 =301 $scheme://domain.com/;
}