How to setup nginx for REST API?

Question

PHP

Trying to follow this tutorial https://youtu.be/COb-KpOfCSw?t=1810
It uses apache server and I want to use nginx.


I need all requests sent to mydomain.com/api/ to be handled through the api.php script
AND somehow placed in the $_GET['q'] variable so that it is available in my api.php script

Answer 1

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /api.php?$args;
}

All requests to api.php