Nginx rewrite index.php?page=contact to just contact - nginx

Question

I am having trouble with this. I want URL to be rewritten from "index.php?page=somepage" to be written to "somepage".
This is how it was in .htaccess if it helps
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(\w+)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(\w+)+\/$ index.php?page=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
Server block:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name domain.com;
root /home/www/domain.com;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
rewrite ^/(w+)$ /index.php?page=$1 last;
rewrite ^/(w+)+/$ /index.php?page=$1 last;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}

Answer 1

Please try the following code,
server {
...
rewrite ^/index.php?page=(.*) /$1 permanent;
...
location ~ /(.*) {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?page=$1;
}
location ~ \.php {
...
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
...
}
...
}

Answer 2

Tried using .htaccess to nginx converter and this piece of code seems to work:
rewrite ^/(w+)$ /index.php?page=$1 last;
rewrite ^/(w+)+/$ /index.php?page=$1 last;
Edit: I overcomplicated things by thinking of rewrites. The solution to what I was trying to do is this:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?page=$uri;
}