No nice Permalinks with Wordpress

[Salem]

Hello,

after days of testing i don't find a way to use short permalinks with
Wordpress, i can only configure URLS with /index.php/xxx in it, not sure
why.

The rewrite-rules are there, but wordpress ignores them.

I tried
    try_files  $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
and
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$request_uri;
(both inside location / {}

If i try /xxx/ instead of /index.php/xxx/ i only see an "Nothing found
for xxx" error from wordpress.

Is there any way to fix this? I found many faqs but i don't find my
problem :-(

Thanks

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