Phalcon + Nginx Routes / Rewrites not working - php

Question

I finally got Phalcon+phpfpm+nginx on a Osx to work... trying to setup a quick REST application I am stuck, I believe with an nginx rewrite.
I am always getting a Route not matched error.
File Structure:
/myapp/
public/
index.php
app/
models/
...
index.php
<?php
$app = new \Phalcon\Mvc\Micro();
$app->get('/api/robots', function() {
echo json_encode(['true']);
});
$app->notFound(function(){
echo json_encode(['Route Not Found']);
});
$app->handle();
nginx config file:
worker_processes 1;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
server {
root /var/www/bmex/public;
listen 80;
server_name some.name.com;
charset utf-8;
#access_log /var/log/nginx/host.access.log main;
set $root_path '/var/www/bmex/public';
location / {
root $root_path;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# if file exists return it right away
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
# otherwise rewrite it
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?_url=/$1 last;
break;
}
}
location ~ \.php {
# try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_index /index.php;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location ~* ^/(css|img|js|flv|swf|download)/(.+)$ {
root $root_path;
}
}
}

Answer 1

It appears the Phalcon docs are wrong... or I am missing something... I will find out soon enough.
Replace _uri=/$1 for =$1 ... so far it works..
rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?_url=/$1 last;
rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?_url=$1 last;