Slim NGINX Rewriting Url to Look Nicer - nginx

Question

I am using slim nginx. The site is live, vagrant homestead. An example of my url is
myurl.com/?page=admins <-- ugly
I want to make it look like this
myurl.com/page/admins <-- user friendly
myurl.com/page/orders
simply just want to remove the ? and replace = with /
I've tried this and many other things but no solution for a while now (I am completely new to this so I am a bit lost)
my etc/nginx/sites-available/myurl.com file so far:
server {
listen 80;
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name .myurl.com;
root "/home/vagrant/code/admin";
index index.html index.htm index.php api.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /api.php$is_args$args;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/myurl.com-error.log error;
sendfile off;
client_max_body_size 100m;
location ~ \.php {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/myurl.com.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/myurl.com.key;
}
server {
rewrite ^/page/(.*)$ /?page=$1 last;
location / {
proxy_pass https://myurl.com;
}
}
last bit of code is my current attempt (suggested by Robert)
Help would be greatly appreciated as I have been stuck on this issue for hours and have researched almost all of the available resources out there!

Answer 1

Assuming you want your users to interact with the application using https://myurl.com/page/admins the rewrite would look similar to this
server {
rewrite ^/page/(.*)$ /?page=$1 last;
location / {
proxy_pass https://1.2.3.4;
}
}
Take a look at either of the following for more information
https://www.nginx.com/blog/creating-nginx-rewrite-rules/
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.html