How to set up Nginx to work with History Api in SPA file?

Just started working with Nginx (previously used Apache) and encountered the problem of configuring the project. There are 2 main files in the public folder:

• index.html - SPA application with History Api
• api.php - application API.

On Apache, the routing looked like this:

SPA (index.html)

• example.com/user
• example.com/user/1
• example.com/user/1/edit
• example.com/user/1/delete

API (api.php)

• example.com/api.php/user.list
• example.com/api.php/user.view
• example.com/api.php/user.edit
• xample.com/api.php/user.delete

How to configure such a routing operation in Nginx, so that if there is a / api prefix / data goes to api.php? and the rest in index.html?

I give examples of how it should work:

• example.com/param_1/param_2/param_n ==> index.html
• example.com / api / param_1 / param_2 / param_n.method ==> api.php

UPD # 1:

server { listen 8.8.8.8:80; server_name example.com; access_log /home/example/data/logs/example.access.log; error_log /home/example/data/logs/example.error.log; root /home/example/data/www/example.com/www; index index.html; rewrite ^/api$ /api.php last; charset utf-8; location / { if (-f $request_filename) { expires max; break; } if ($request_filename !~ "\.(js|htc|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$") { rewrite ^(.*) /index.html last; } } location /api/ { try_files $uri $uri/ /api.php?$args; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; } location ~ \.php($|/) { set $script $uri; set $path_info ""; if ($uri ~ "^(.+\.php)(/.+)") { set $script $1; set $path_info $2; } fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; } } 

UPD # 2: - Public Folder Structure

• www /
  • css /
  • fonts /
  • js /
  • img /
  • template /
  • temp /
  • uploads /
  • api.php
  • index.html