I am trying to configure my .htaccess file to redirect all URI requests, including folders, to index.php. Here is the structure of my root directory:

• app
• admin
• public
• index.php
• .htaccess

My goal is to redirect requests as follows:

www.example.com/anything -> Pass! Successfully redirected to index.php, no HTTP errors.
www.example.com/admin -> Not Pass! Displays HTTP error: Forbidden (You don’t have permission to access this resource.)

Any other request works fine, only when I try to access a URI that contains a folder with the same name I get http forbidden error

I want to handle all URI requests as normal GET requests to index.php. How can I achieve this?

Here is my current .htaccess configuration:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
    Options -MultiViews -Indexes +FollowSymLinks 

    # Turn rewriting on 
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    # Redirect http
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE]

    # Redirect requests to index.php 
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [NC,L,QSA] 

    # proc/self/environ? no way!
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} proc/self/environ [OR]

    # Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|%3D) [OR]

    # Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*(.*) [OR]

    # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C).*script.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]

    # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|[|%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]

    # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|[|%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})

    # Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
</IfModule>