Suppose the server ip 12.34.12.12; you want to configure to redirect access to the /dir/null.html file when accessing http://12.34.12.12, the configuration is as follows (the same applies to access only with domain names, but the localhost at server_name is changed to yours domain name)
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /home/wwwroot/;
location / { root /home/wwwroot/; index index.html; rewrite ^/$ /dir/null.html break; //This sentence is the key, redirect to the /dir/null.html page }
}