URL redirection not working with index.php

Question

I have this URL

https://example.org/index.php/foobar.html

That I want to redirect to

https://example.org/xpto/foobar/

I tried this

rewrite ^/index.php/foobar.html /xpto/foobar/ permanent;

But no luck. What can be?

Answer 1

if ($request_filename ~ /foobar.html) {
  rewrite ^ https://example.org/xpto/foobar/ permanent;
}