Nginx no trailing slash (redirect loop)

Hi there–

I’m trying to run my wordpress install, on nginx, with NO trailing slashes. Using a custom permalink structure and the following rules, I successfully have it running for all pages/posts and admin pages except for the homepage. My homepage has a redirect loop. Does anybody have suggestions for either a better overall way of doing this, or a specific override fix to just get the homepage working (since everything else works fine)?

Many thanks to anybody who can help!

Relevant nginx server (virtual host) config I’ve been trying:

rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 permanent; #Remove trailing slashes
rewrite ^/blog$ /blog/index.php;
location /blog/ {
        rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 permanent; #Remove trailing slashes
        try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?q=$uri&$args; #General wordpress rewrite
}

(The redirect loop goes from url.com/blog to url.com/blog/ and repeats.)