Nginx - Redirect 404 PHP files - php

Question

I'm using Laravel's valet on my local. I did not have a problem with this on my local. My remote server uses Ubuntu 16.04.
I have an index.php like so in my website's root:
<?php
require __dir__ . '/src/core/bootstrap.php';
require __dir__ . '/src/controllers/index.php';
src/core/bootstrap.php is stuff for composer and databases. But this is what src/controllers/index.php is:
<?php
session_start();
use App\UserTools\User;
use App\Core\Router;
$page = Router::load()->fetchPage();
include "src/controllers/{$page}.controller.php";
include "src/views/{$page}.view.php";
So, when users visit site.com, it goes to main since it's the home page. But, let's say, for example, they visit: site.com/about, then $page would be about and viola... routing. This was all taught to me on Laracasts, so excuse me if this seems... rudimentary.
The problem lies, when I visit site.com/api, it just shows me a blank page. Or, like, book?id=1 blank page. Or
Here is the nginx block from valet which tells the server what to do with files not found:
location / {
rewrite VALET_SERVER_PATH last;
}
How can I apply that to my site? I tried substituting VALET_SERVER_PATH with /var/www/html but I just got a Server Error 500.
Here is my current nginx block:
server {
server_name www.site.org;
return 301 $scheme://site.org$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name site.org;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
# SSL configuration
listen 443 ssl default_server;
listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
include snippets/ssl-site.org.conf;
include snippets/ssl-params.conf;
root /var/www/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name site.org;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
location ~ /.well-known {
allow all;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}
}
It works. But only for the front page. Yes, I have HTTPS enabled and www traffic gets re-directed to non-www URI.

Answer 1

Make changes on the following directives:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
}