I don't mean to be blunt, but using if is not the way: http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil Writing clean URLs is much easier with try

I don't mean to be blunt, but using if is not the way: http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil Writing clean URLs is much easier with try_files, which allows you to do something like try_files $uri.html If you don't want to see file extensions.