Rewrite /ping to index.php/ping on nginx - php

Question

I have started off with a docker image which has a processor for php files in place.
Requesting the normal index.php file goes without issue, but the routes I added are less accessible.
One of the routes for example is /time, accessing this is done (with the php builtin webserver) with
index.php/time, and it would return me the time. Now the docker I used has php working perfectly, just that I think one of the rules is breaking this functionality for me. tried a lot of changes, but cant seem to find the issue.
$app->get('/time', function ($request, $response, $args) {
// Current Unix timestamp
$seconds = time();
// Current Unix timestamp with microseconds
$milliseconds = microtime(true)*1000;
// Nanosecond precision
// This is default as per InfluxDB standard
$nanoseconds = $milliseconds*1000000;
// Return
return $response->withJson(array(
'seconds' => $seconds,
'milliseconds' => intval($milliseconds),
'nanoseconds' => intval($nanoseconds)
), 200);
});
This is the configuration of the nginx server I am serving in the docker. One of the things I have tried is adding the location /ping { line. But to no avail, /ping, /time keep redirecting to a 404 not found.
server {
listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
listen [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
root /var/www/html/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name _;
# Disable sendfile as per https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/synced-folders/virtualbox.html
sendfile off;
# Add stdout logging
error_log /dev/stdout info;
access_log /dev/stdout;
# Add option for x-forward-for (real ip when behind elb)
#real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For;
#set_real_ip_from 172.16.0.0/12;
location /ping {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php/ping;
}
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to index.html
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
location = /404.html {
root /var/www/errors;
internal;
}
location ^~ /sad.svg {
alias /var/www/errors/sad.svg;
access_log off;
}
location ^~ /twitter.svg {
alias /var/www/errors/twitter.svg;
access_log off;
}
location ^~ /gitlab.svg {
alias /var/www/errors/gitlab.svg;
access_log off;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on socket
#
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|ico|webp|tiff|ttf|svg)$ {
expires 5d;
}
# deny access to . files, for security
#
location ~ /\. {
log_not_found off;
deny all;
}
location ^~ /.well-known {
allow all;
auth_basic off;
}
}