RewriteRule that preserves GET parameters

Question

What is wrong with this rewrite rule?

RewriteRule ^api/(.+)$ api/index.php?url=$1 [L]

I simply want \"index.php?url=\" to be added after ap

Answer 1

Are you doing something to stop infinite recursion?

 RewriteRule ^api/(.+)$ api/index.php?url=$1 [R=301,L]

or some equivalent