redirect to subdirectory and always get 404 not found in Slim php

Question

I want make two slim app, one for api calling and another one for website users.
I put my main php file into 'src' directory, and the structure is as below:

/  
---.htaccess  
---/src(here are files)  
-----.htaccess  
-----index.php(Slim)  
-----/Controllers  
-----/Views  
-----/Models  
-----/api  
-------.htaccess  
-------index.php(Slim)  
---/public  
-----/js  
-----/css  
-----/fonts

i want to make my url from this:
http://localhost/project/src/api/foo
to
http://locahost/project/api/foo

I don't know how to write the first .htaccess(root) i try to redirect to subdir like this:

RewriteEngine On  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^src/  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f  
RewriteRule ^ src/ [QSA,L]    

but it always returns 404 Not found by Slim. i thought it did redirect to subdir but the slim router wont get correct url, am i right?

and others looks like this:(I just copy the documentation from SlimFramework)

RewriteEngine On  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f  
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA] 

any ideas would help me a lot! thank you!

Answer 1

Try this rule in your /project/.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /project/

RewriteCond  !/src/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ src/$1 [L]

Make sure this is your first rule.