Converting Rewrites to Nginx

[parkerj]

Ugh, I spoke too soon. It works when the urls are like this:
http://example.com/install?step=1

But it does not work when the urls are like this:

http://example.com/dashboard/
http://example.com/profile/

Sometime it brings back 404 Not Found and other times it comes back with 500
Internal Error

@Miguel, trying it my way and trying it the way you suggested, both give me
a 404/500. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,248446,248485#msg-248485