How to stop nginx from adding a trailing slash

[Gregory Edigarov]

On 09.03.18 16:52, Igor Sysoev wrote:
>> On 9 Mar 2018, at 17:06, Gregory Edigarov <edigarov at qarea.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> somesite.com/blog is 301 redirected to somesite.com/blog/ by nginx.
>>
>> this is not the behaviour i want.
>>
>> is there any way to stop it from doing so?
> A special location for "/blog":
>
> location = /blog {
>      ...
> }
>
> location /blog/ {
>      ...
> }
>
>
sorry, doesn't work...

It somehow seems to me, some time ago there was an option, to switch the 
related behaviour.
but may be it is my false memory.