I tried a few of those but still ended up with various errors. Even if it did work, it all seems too fragile and basically just a hack since those configuration files set up special redirects for half a dozen of the Prestashop URLs, and if any of those Prestashop URLs change in future versions, or if new ones are added, the configuration file redirect hacks would have to be updated also.
I ended up switching to Apache. I generally prefer Nginx, but I think Prestashop 1.7 just isn't set up to work well with it because Prestashop is doing something unusual with the way it handles URLs that causes issues with Nginx.