PHP Laravel Framework makes it easy for us to create a Restful API. We just set the routing in the Routes -> api.php section.
By default we will find that we will be given a url like this http://ourdomain.com/api/[end-point]
This is to distinguish between urls that can be accessed via the web or can only be accessed through api. We want to change it to http://ourdomain.com/[end-point] by removing the “api” prefix.
To change it we just go to the RouteServiceProvider.php file in the app/Providers folder
Then in the mapApiRoutes method function section, we can eliminate the prefix (‘api’)
public function boot(): void
{
RateLimiter::for('api', function (Request $request) {
return Limit::perMinute(60)->by($request->user()?->id ?: $request->ip());
});
$this->routes(function () {
Route::middleware('api')
// ->prefix('api')
->namespace($this->namespace)
->group(base_path('routes/api.php'));
Route::middleware('web')
->group(base_path('routes/web.php'));
});
}
#source : https://medium.com/@arthajonar/remove-api-prefix-from-url-on-laravel-35ed585f3a53
