here is how you can create a simple blog/website in 10 lines of nginx configugration code
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com;
root /home/ubuntu/path-to-site;
location / {
}
location /blog {
try_files $uri $uri/ @htmlext;
}
location @htmlext {
rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.html last;
}
}