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---
title: "Nginx Tweaks"
date: 2022-06-16
---
The point of this article is to show you how to do some commonly-desired
tweaks in Nginx while in the meantime helping you understand how it
works.
## Do not require `.html` in URLs
If your website is using lots of `.html` files for pages, it\'s sort of
overkill to make people type that in for every page they are looking
for. We can remove that requirement with Nginx.
Open your site\'s configuration file in `/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/` and
within the `server` block, there should be a `location` block that looks
something like this if you have followed [the guide here](/basic/nginx).
```nginx
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404 ;
}
```
What this means is that in the file location of `/`, i.e. anywhere and
everywhere in the root file system, We will look for the three things
listed in `try_files` in that order:
1. `$uri`: a file that directly matches the content added after the
domain.
2. `$uri/`: a *directory* that directly matches the content added after
the domain.
3. `=404`: if neither of those is found, we give a 404 error, which as
you probably know, signified \"Page not found.\"
We will now change the content inside the `location` block to the below:
```nginx
location / {
if ($request_uri ~ ^/(.*)\.html$) { return 302 /$1; }
try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/ =404 ;
}
```
`$1` here refers to the first content in the parentheses `()` in the
preceeding regular expression.
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