Rewrite /index.html to /

[Mark]

Developing static files on the local filesystem I use index.html instead
of / for the home page.
When I push them to the remote server I want
http://domain.com/index.html to be redirected to http://domain.com/ for
SEO reasons.
I've Googled but the best I seem to be able to achieve is a redirect
loop. What do I need to do?

Here are my failed rules :

#  rewrite ^index.html$ $scheme://domain.com/ permanent;
#  rewrite /index.html $scheme://domain.com/ permanent;
#  location = /index.html {
#    rewrite ^(.*) $scheme://domain.com/ permanent;
#  }

Thanks.

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,217899,217899#msg-217899