Wordpress with index.html on nginx (debian) - php

Question

I have a server with nginx (php-fpm), but I need the index to be index.html.
My configuration is this:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
#SSL configuration listen *:443 ssl http2;
ssl_certificate /path/to/my.dev.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /path/to/my-key.pem;
root /home/path/to/misite.dev;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name misite.dev ;
location / {
try_files index.html $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi.conf;
}
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|eot|otf|ttf|woff)$ {
add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=31536000, immutable";
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}
location ~ /\. {
deny all;
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}
}
By having this, only the index.html works, but nothing with php, and by removing the location's index.html, everything works fine with php, but not the index.html
location / {try_files -> index.html <- $ uri / /index.php?$args;}
Do you know how I can do it so that both cases work?
(index.html and dynamic pages with php like mysite.com/tag/my-tag)
I hope I have explained well.

Answer 1

Using /index.html as the first parameter to try_files will break things.
The index directive will look for matching files in the order presented. See this document for details.
So if you have a directory containing more than one type of index file, simply construct your index statement in the order you would like Nginx to prioritise them.
For example:
index index.html index.php;