Nginx configuration with laravel and static site. Routes with prefix `api` will be handled by laravel

nginx.conf

server {

    server_name mydomain.com;

    charset utf-8;

   root /var/www/html/{Laravel_Project_DIR}/current/public;

    index index.html index.php;

    location /api {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;

        location ~ \.php$ {
            include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.0-fpm.sock;
        }
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.0-fpm.sock;
    }

   location / {
        root /var/www/html/{STATIC_SITE_DIR};
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html?$query_string;
   }

    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }

}