diff --git a/ops/nginx/quant-os-static.conf b/ops/nginx/quant-os-static.conf
index 58cffe8..bd6db08 100644
--- a/ops/nginx/quant-os-static.conf
+++ b/ops/nginx/quant-os-static.conf
@@ -20,10 +20,16 @@ location = /quant-os/status/index.html {
     return 308 https://$host/quant-os/status/;
 }
 
-location ^~ /quant-os/status/ {
-    root /srv/www;
-    index index.html;
-    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
+location = /quant-os/status/ {
+    alias /srv/www/quant-os/status/index.html;
+    default_type text/html;
+    add_header Cache-Control "no-cache" always;
+    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
+}
+
+location ^~ /quant-os/status/ {
+    root /srv/www;
+    try_files $uri =404;
     add_header Cache-Control "no-cache" always;
     add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
 }
diff --git a/status/status-data.js b/status/status-data.js
index 5bea331..21e2fb2 100644
--- a/status/status-data.js
+++ b/status/status-data.js
@@ -1475,14 +1475,14 @@ window.QUANT_OS_PUBLIC_STATUS = {
   "provenance": {
     "baselineConfig": "configs/baseline.json",
     "bundleManifest": "dist/bundle_manifest.json",
-    "payloadSha256": "9aae5da8e1d92fd28cfd7d6bef50774c4981b2baac1728ccd3153729234a88f0",
+    "payloadSha256": "d2acea085dbb251b317071c11d2eeb1e778c9246f9b390e58cb137d84dae241c",
     "payloadSha256Semantics": "SHA-256 of canonical payload before payloadSha256 is added.",
     "platformMatrix": "docs/PLATFORM_MATRIX.md",
     "production80Assessment": "profiles/production-80/current-assessment.json",
     "production80Standard": "profiles/production-80/standard.json",
     "releaseReachability": "releases/quant60-research-candidate-v1/reachability.json",
     "scorecard": "gate_scorecard.json",
-    "sourceSetSha256": "6d906cde8df07f8fae2f2faf05679a476ceae8f5173533b3b67beecc710b2f61",
+    "sourceSetSha256": "66699c1afb92b39abc2f41fdbe43578d9b507215dc0f28914953dc73edd3463f",
     "sources": [
       {
         "path": "gate_scorecard.json",
@@ -1582,7 +1582,7 @@ window.QUANT_OS_PUBLIC_STATUS = {
       },
       {
         "path": "ops/nginx/quant-os-static.conf",
-        "sha256": "10b1c338c22caa0d4c4f68c1213d6c297a367995601dece7dd19df561b0c002e"
+        "sha256": "9fcf5f96ad3807060bd1529124dcbfda4e10c3ef93947434ba9a106bbe2a392e"
       },
       {
         "path": "ops/nginx/quant-os-legacy-redirects-302.conf",
diff --git a/tests/test_project_scaffold.py b/tests/test_project_scaffold.py
index 7143fe5..4c8d522 100644
--- a/tests/test_project_scaffold.py
+++ b/tests/test_project_scaffold.py
@@ -128,8 +128,15 @@ class ProjectScaffoldTests(unittest.TestCase):
         config = (
             PROJECT / "ops/nginx/quant-os-static.conf"
         ).read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+        self.assertIn("location = /quant-os/status/ {", config)
+        self.assertIn(
+            "alias /srv/www/quant-os/status/index.html;",
+            config,
+        )
         self.assertIn("location ^~ /quant-os/status/", config)
         self.assertIn("root /srv/www;", config)
+        self.assertNotIn("index index.html;", config)
+        self.assertNotIn("try_files $uri $uri/", config)
         self.assertIn(
             "https://$host/quant-os/status/",
             config,