Hi,
I am trying to make a 301 redirect like this:
/authors.php?name=xxx ==> /author/xxx

this config solves the problem partially -

location ~ ^/authors.php {
if ($args ~ "name=(.+)" ) {
set $arg_name $1;
rewrite ^/authors\.php "/author/$arg_name" permanent;
}
}

But the query string remains, and the final location is /author/xxx?name=xxx

How can i remove the unneeded query string?

Thank you!