MAMP Configuration File + WordPress Pemalinks (Not Working)

gistfile1.txt

#load_module "modules/ngx_http_image_filter_module.so";
#load_module "modules/ngx_http_perl_module.so";
#load_module "modules/ngx_http_xslt_filter_module.so";
#load_module "modules/ngx_mail_module.so";
#load_module "modules/ngx_stream_module.so";

user                         s3w47m88 staff;
worker_processes             2;

events {
    worker_connections       1024;
}

http {
    include                              mime.types;
    default_type             text/html;
        gzip                     on;
        gzip_types               text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon;

    sendfile                 on;

        server {
                listen               7888 default_server;

                # MAMP DOCUMENT_ROOT !! Don't remove this line !!
                root                 "/Users/s3w47m88/Projects";

                access_log           /Applications/MAMP/logs/nginx_access.log;
                error_log            /Applications/MAMP/logs/nginx_error.log;

                location / {
                        index            index.html index.php;
                }

                location ~* /MAMP([^-].*)$ {
                        root             /Applications/MAMP/bin;
                        index            index.php;

                        location ~ \.php$ {
                                try_files        $uri =404;
                                fastcgi_pass     unix:/Applications/MAMP/Library/logs/fastcgi/nginxFastCGI.sock;
                                fastcgi_param    SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                                include          fastcgi_params;
                        }
                }

                location ~* /phpMyAdmin(.*)$ {
                        root             /Applications/MAMP/bin;
                        index            index.php;

                        location ~ \.php$ {
                                try_files        $uri =404;
                                fastcgi_pass     unix:/Applications/MAMP/Library/logs/fastcgi/nginxFastCGI.sock;
                                fastcgi_param    SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                                include          fastcgi_params;
                        }
                }

                location ~* /phpPgAdmin(.*)$ {
                        root             /Applications/MAMP/bin;
                        index            index.php;

                        location ~ \.php$ {
                                try_files        $uri =404;
                                fastcgi_pass     unix:/Applications/MAMP/Library/logs/fastcgi/nginxFastCGI.sock;
                                fastcgi_param    SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                                include          fastcgi_params;
                        }
                }

                location ~* /phpLiteAdmin(.*)$ {
                        root             /Applications/MAMP/bin;
                        index            index.php;

                        location ~ \.php$ {
                                try_files        $uri =404;
                                fastcgi_pass     unix:/Applications/MAMP/Library/logs/fastcgi/nginxFastCGI.sock;
                                fastcgi_param    SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                                include          fastcgi_params;
                                fastcgi_param    SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                                include          fastcgi_params;
                        }
                }

                location ~* /adminer(.*)$ {
                        root             /Applications/MAMP/bin;
                        index            adminer.php;

                        location ~ \.php$ {
                                try_files        $uri =404;
                                fastcgi_pass     unix:/Applications/MAMP/Library/logs/fastcgi/nginxFastCGI.sock;
                                fastcgi_param    SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                                include          fastcgi_params;
                        }
                }

                location /icons {
                        alias /Applications/MAMP/Library/icons;
                        autoindex on;
                }

                location /favicon.ico {
                        alias /Applications/MAMP/bin/favicon.ico;
                        # log_not_found off;
                        # access_log off;
                }

                location ~ \.php$ {
                        try_files        $uri =404;
                        fastcgi_pass     unix:/Applications/MAMP/Library/logs/fastcgi/nginxFastCGI.sock;
                        fastcgi_param    SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                        include          fastcgi_params;
                }

                location ~ /\. {
                        deny all;
                }

                # location ~* \.(gif|jpg|png|pdf)$ {
        #       expires          30d;
                # }

                # location = /robots.txt {
        #       allow all;
        #       log_not_found off;
        #       access_log off;
                # }

            # location ~* \.(txt|log)$ {
                # allow 127.0.0.1;
                # deny all;
                # }

                # location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
                # return 403;
                # }

                location /nginx_status {
                        stub_status      on;
                        access_log       off;
                        allow            127.0.0.1;
                        deny                     all;
                }
                
                location /
                        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
                }
        }

    # HTTPS server
    #
    #server {
    #    listen       443 ssl;
    #    server_name  localhost;

    #    ssl_certificate      cert.pem;
    #    ssl_certificate_key  cert.key;

    #    ssl_session_cache    shared:SSL:1m;
    #    ssl_session_timeout  5m;

    #    ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    #    ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    #    ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    #    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers  on;

    #    location / {
    #        root   html;
    #        index  index.html index.htm;
    #    }
    #}
}