Nginx – Resolve Rewrite or Internal Redirection Cycle Issues

Im banging my head against a table trying to figure out what is causing redirection cycle in my nginx configuration when trying to access URL which does not exist
Configuration goes as follows:

server {
        listen       127.0.0.1:8080;
        server_name  .somedomain.com;
    root  /var/www/somedomain.com;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/somedomain.com-access.nginx.log;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/somedomain.com-error.nginx.log debug;

        location ~* \.php.$ {
        # Proxy all requests with an URI ending with .php*
        # (includes PHP, PHP3, PHP4, PHP5...)
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
        }

        # all other files
        location / {
            root  /var/www/somedomain.com;
        try_files $uri $uri/ ;
        }

    error_page 404 /errors/404.html;
        location /errors/ {
                alias /var/www/errors/;
        }       

        #this loads custom logging configuration which disables favicon error logging
        include /etc/nginx/drop.conf;
}

this domain is a simple STATIC HTML site just for some testing purposes.
I'd expect that the error_page directive would kick in in response to PHP-FPM not being able to find given files as I have fastcgi_intercept_errors on; in http block and nave error_page set up, but I'm guessing the request fails even before that somewhere on internal redirects. Any help would be much appreciated.