How to remove slash from URI in nginx?

Question

Nginx

I have a project. There was a task to remove multiple slashes in the url address. For example:
domain.com/ru///courses I
need to redirect
http://domain.com/ru/courses
I use docker and in the nginx container I tried different settings from Google, but I check it does not work on local

Answer 1

server {

    if ($request_uri ~ "//") {
        rewrite ^ $uri permanent;
    }

Works withmerge_slashes on

Answer 2

try something like

merge_slashes off;
if ($request_uri ~* "\/\/") {
  rewrite ^/(.*)      $scheme://$host/$1    permanent;
}