How to rewrite file address from root to folder without redirect?

Question

Apache HTTP Server

There is a site folder with the following structure
/api
/dist
/whatever It is
necessary that requests to /api remain unchanged
Any other requests converted from %{REQUEST_URI} to /dist/%{REQUEST_URI} in the address bar should not be visible to the dist user.

Answer 1

Negative rule will help you
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ! ^/api.*