How to access query string parameters after “Cleaning” your PHP REST API?

Question

To give some context, I initially started out with my api looking like this:

http://myserver/api.php?action=projects

In my api.php file I have

Answer 1

You can use these rules:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(?:action|api\.php)/([^/.]+)/?$ api.php?action=$1 [L,NC,QSA]