How to set index.html as root file in Nginx?

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How to set index.html for the domain name e.g. https://www.example.com/ - leads user to index.html in root directory.

I've tried different things like: 

server {
    # some configs

    location = / {
            index index.html;
            fastcgi_index index.html;
    }
or 
    location / {
            index index.html;
            fastcgi_index index.html;
    }

}

Nothing helped me.

There are some other configs with location keyword, though I'd commented them either.

Other "location" configs in the server { clause: 

location ~ .*(css|htc|js|bmp|jp?g|gif|ico|cur|png|swf|htm?|html)$ {
        access_log off;
        root $www_root;
}

location ~ \.php$
{
        include                         /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        index                           index.html;
        fastcgi_index                   index.html;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME   $www_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING      $query_string;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO         $fastcgi_path_info;
        fastcgi_pass                    127.0.0.1:9000;
        # Директива определяет что ответы FastCGI-сервера с кодом больше или равные 400
        # перенаправлять на обработку nginx'у с помощью директивы error_page
        fastcgi_intercept_errors        on;
        break;
}

location ~ /\.ht {
    deny all;
}

All them were commented and uncommented, but nothing helped.

PS Editions were made in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/domainname.com file.

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6 Answers

Add this to the location block in nginx works for me

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

thats the entire block

location / {
  expires -1;
  add_header Pragma "no-cache";
  add_header Cache-Control "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0";
  root /var/www
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html =404;
}
user_51160080

For me, the try_files directive in the (currently most voted) answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/11957896/608359 led to rewrite cycles,

*173 rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internally redirecting

I had better luck with the index directive. Note that I used a forward slash before the name, which might or might not be what you want.

server {
  listen 443 ssl;
  server_name example.com;

  root /home/dclo/example;
  index /index.html;
  error_page 404 /index.html;

  # ... ssl configuration
}

In this case, I wanted all paths to lead to /index.html, including when returning a 404.

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