MAMPでWebサーバーをApacheからNginxに切り替えて動かしたいがエラーが出て解決できない

前提・実現したいこと

MAMPのWebサーバーをApacheからNginxに変更しようとしています。
nginx.confを設定後、サーバを起動してlocalhostにアクセスしようとしたら、chromeに下記のメッセージが出ます。

発生している問題・エラーメッセージ

Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found.
1/1
NotFoundHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 161:
in RouteCollection.php line 161
at RouteCollection->match(object(Request)) in Router.php line 821
at Router->findRoute(object(Request)) in Router.php line 691
at Router->dispatchToRoute(object(Request)) in Router.php line 675
at Router->dispatch(object(Request)) in Kernel.php line 246
at Kernel->Illuminate\Foundation\Http\{closure}(object(Request))
at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 52
at Pipeline->Illuminate\Routing\{closure}(object(Request)) in CheckForMaintenanceMode.php line 44
at CheckForMaintenanceMode->handle(object(Request), object(Closure))
at call_user_func_array(array(object(CheckForMaintenanceMode), 'handle'), array(object(Request), object(Closure))) in Pipeline.php line 136
at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}(object(Request))
at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 32
at Pipeline->Illuminate\Routing\{closure}(object(Request))
at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 102
at Pipeline->then(object(Closure)) in Kernel.php line 132
at Kernel->sendRequestThroughRouter(object(Request)) in Kernel.php line 99
at Kernel->handle(object(Request)) in index.php line 53

該当のソースコード

どこを修正すれば良いのかわからず困っています。
解決方法が分かる方がいたら教えてください。
以下はnginx.confの設定ファイルです。

mac os　10.12.6 Sierra php7.21 MAMP Version 4.5 (3208)になります。
Apacheは成功というメッセージが出てきます。
上司はPHPのバージョンが高すぎるのではないかということでバージョンダウンを試みましたが
うまく行きません。

#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                         root admin;
worker_processes             2;

events {
    worker_connections       1024;
}

http {
    include       			 mime.types;
    include					 /Applications/MAMP/conf/nginx/conf.d/engineer_route.conf;
    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;
    client_max_body_size 3M;
    sendfile                 on;

	server {
		listen               80 default_server;

		# MAMP DOCUMENT_ROOT !! Don't remove this line !!
		root                 "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs";

		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;
			}
		}
		
		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;
		}
	}

    # 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_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    #    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers  on;

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