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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.