How to get paginated blog only pages not being created with the index.html

Hello there

I have a blog running with the following setting

activate :blog do |blog|
  blog.name = "faq";
 
  # This will add a prefix to all links, template references and source paths
  blog.prefix = "faqs"
  blog.permalink = "{category}"
  blog.taglink = "/{tag}/index.html"

   #Enable pagination
  blog.paginate = true
  blog.per_page = 5
  blog.page_link = "page-{num}.html"

  blog.tag_template = "faqs/tag.html"
  #blog.calendar_template = "calendar.html"
end

I’d like to get the page-2.html to be created as a page and not as a directory. However, for my project I required also the directory_index param.

I know that directory_index option can be disabled at page level, but although the following code I keep getting those pages generated.

page "*page*", :directory_index => false

As far as I’ve seen none of the page generated from the blog module seems to react to the above page directive.

Do you know how I can achieve my goal?

Thanks