How to exclude index.php and/or index.html from redirect to nginx?

Question

PHP

I'm doing a redirect from without a slash to a slash:
rewrite ^(.*[^/])$ $1/ permanent;
How can I exclude index.php and index.html from this redirect?

Answer 1

Like this

if ($request_uri ~ ^/index.(html|php)) { rewrite ^.*$ / permanent; }

Answer 2

It's easier (and better for SEO) to do a separate rewrite from "/index\.php" to "/"