Nginx rewrite subdirectory - .htaccess

I'm trying to do a rewrite for nginx. It's working but for sub directories it is taking the root's index.php instead of the index.php in the individual subdir. This is how my directory structure looks like:
/index.php
/p/index.php
/c/index.php
and this is my rewrite:
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite ^/([^./]+)/?$ /index.php?act=$1 break; #need break?
rewrite ^/([^./]+)/(.+)/?$ /index.php?act=$1&upm=$2 break;
rewrite ^/([^./]+)/([^./]+)/?$ /$1/index.php?act=$2;
}
I tried adding an entry for each subdirectory but it doesn't work either:
location /p/ {
root /home/user/public_html/p/;
rewrite ^/([^./]+)/(.+)/?$ /index.php?act=$1&upm=$2 break;
}
Any ideas?

The rewrite ^/([^./]+)/([^./]+)/?$ /$1/index.php?act=$2; will never be executed as the previous rewrite will always match. You might try swapping rewrites #2 and #3.
The root /home/user/public_html/p/; is probably wrong as /p/ will appear twice as it is in the $document_root and the $uri.
The rewrite in your location /p/ should rewrite to /p/index.php and not /index.php?

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i need some help from the experts.
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