> In this configuration:
>
> rewrite ^(.*/)index.html http://$host$1 permanent;
>
> location / {
> index index.html;
> }
>
> nginx will not run the server level rewrite, after the internal redrect,
> so there will not be the loop.In this configuration:
>
> rewrite ^(.*/)index.html http://$host$1 permanent;>
>
> location / {
> index index.html;
> }
>
> nginx will not run the server level rewrite, after the internal redrect,
> so there will not be the loop.

I still get a redirect this way. Let me point out the "mysite" configuration file under /etc/nginx/sites-available/ (too embarrassed to give the actual highly-in-construction site):

server {
listen mysite:80;
server_name .mysite;
if ($host ~* .\.(mysite.*)) {
set $host_without_www $1;
rewrite ^(.*)$ http://$host_without_www$1 permanent;
}

access_log /var/log/nginx/mysite.access.log;

rewrite ^(.*/)index.html http://$host$1 permanent;

location / {
root /var/www/mysite;
index index.html index.htm;
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /var/www/mysite;
}
}