On 07/02/14 02:23, Valentin V. Bartenev wrote: > The reason is documented:http://nginx.org/r/index > > "It should be noted that using an index file > causes an internal redirect ..." Thanks very much for this Valentin. I've been stuck on this for a while. The solution was to replace the "location = /" block with a "location = /index.html" block.