I have a REST API with Laravel 5.5 LTS that I want to deploy to my ubuntu server and use nginx.

I have uploaded the api to my ubuntu server and the updated my nginx config file like this:

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;
        root /myservername/api/public;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;
        server_name myservername.com www.myservername.com;
        location /api {
                try_files $uri/ /server.php?$query_string;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_pass             unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        }
}

I then have an endpoint route configured as:

Route::get('/api/mail/send', 'MailController@index');

now when I go to myservername.com/api/mail/send I get a 404 not found.

The MailController just does a var_dump():

class MailController extends Controller {

    /**
     * @param Request $request
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
     */
    public function index(Request $request) {
        var_dump('hi');
    }
}

Anyone know what I am missing? My second location block I basically copy pasted, do i need it? as I notice that unix path does not exist (/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock)