default.conf is what we need to edit

    podman run -p 8080:80 -v ./default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf \
        quay.io/colemanx/raku-doc-website

default.conf

@@ -3,53 +3,24 @@ server {
     listen  [::]:80;
     server_name  localhost;
 
-    #access_log  /var/log/nginx/host.access.log  main;
-
-    # location / {
-    #     root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
-    #     index  index.html index.htm;
-    # }
     # rewrite html extensions
-    rewrite ^(/.+)\.html$ $scheme://$host$1 permanent;
+    rewrite ^(/.+)\.html$ $scheme://$host:$server_port$1;
 
     location / {
-        index index.html index.php;
+        # index index.html index.php;
         # this way nginx first tries to serve the file 
         # as an .html although it doesn't have the extension
-        try_files $uri.html $uri $uri/ @handler;
         root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
+        try_files $uri.html $uri $uri/ @handler;
     }
 
     #error_page  404              /404.html;
 
-    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
-    #
     error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
     location = /50x.html {
         root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
     }
 
-    # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
-    #
-    #location ~ \.php$ {
-    #    proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
-    #}
-
-    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
-    #
-    #location ~ \.php$ {
-    #    root           html;
-    #    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
-    #    fastcgi_index  index.php;
-    #    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
-    #    include        fastcgi_params;
-    #}
 
-    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
-    # concurs with nginx's one
-    #
-    #location ~ /\.ht {
-    #    deny  all;
-    #}
 }