Make Apache ignore actual directory for route?

Forewarning: i'm not great with Apache. Usually i can fumble my way around, but it doesn't take much to throw me off.

i've done all my development using Cake's built-in server, and things have been mostly smooth. i'm now working toward migrating to a LAMP server (testing locally in Windows), starting with figuring out what configuration differences there will be. i need this to be a VirtualHost config. Cake's server Just Works (TM), but Apache is giving me migraines.

i have a set of Routes with prefix "admin", so anything from /admin/whatever... is using /Controller/Admin/WhateverController. This Just Works (TM) with the Cake server, but with Apache, it gives me various errors, depending on config variations.

Before getting much further into the TL of this DR, i think i've discovered part of the problem: i have an actual /webroot/admin directory where CSS/IMG/JS assets for the Admin section of the site are held. There's no index.php there, just the resources. It appears Apache is choking on this directory. If i create /webroot/contact, it chokes on that as well. Without the directory, the /contact URL displays correctly. The Cake server doesn't seem to care that i have either /webroot/admin or /webroot/contact. So there must be something wrong in my Apache config, but i can't seem to get the right setup.

If that's enough to trigger some suggestions, great! PLEASE tell me what stupid-simple thing i missed. If not, here's what i currently have...

1. Virtual Host config:
<VirtualHost *:8008>
    Define SITE_ROOT "C:/Sites/kodiakinvestmentsllc.com-cake3"
    ServerName kodiak.local
   
    DocumentRoot   ${SITE_ROOT}
    DirectoryIndex index.php

    ErrorLog  ${SITE_ROOT}/tmp/logs/error.log
    CustomLog ${SITE_ROOT}/tmp/logs/debug.log combined
   
    <Directory /webroot>
        AllowOverride All
        Order Allow,Deny
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

2. Routes
Router::scope('/', function(RouteBuilder $routes) {
    // Several routes defined here that work in Apache
});

Router::prefix('admin', function(RouteBuilder $routes){
    $routes->connect('/:controller', ['action' => 'index'], ['routeClass' => 'InflectedRoute']);
    $routes->connect('/:controller/:action/*', [], ['routeClass' => 'InflectedRoute']);
    $routes->connect('/login', ['controller' => 'Users', 'action' => 'login']);
    $routes->connect('/logout', ['controller' => 'Users', 'action' => 'logout']);
    $routes->connect('/', ['controller' => 'Admin', 'action' => 'index']);
});

3. .htaccess
/.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule   ^$   webroot/   [L]
    RewriteRule   (.*) webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<FilesMatch ".(eot|ttf|otf|woff)">
    Header Set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
</FilesMatch>
AddType image/svg+xml .svg .svgz

/webroot/.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond   %{REWRITE_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule   ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

3. URLs
kodiak.local:8008/ : Works, shows Cake's system check page. (i still have to work out a main index.)
kodiak.local:8008/contact : Works, uses route defined above in the '/' scope. Other routes similar to this also work, so i know mod_rewrite is doing some part of its job.
kodiak.local:8008/admin : Broken...

• It typically redirects to /webroot/admin and gives an error that either i'm missing "WebrootController" (obviously wrong), or usually a 403 access forbidden to /webroot/admin.
• Cake's server correctly redirects to /admin/login and correctly lets me log in and go to various /admin paths...
  

Let me know if more info is needed to figure out what i'm missing. i appreciate all the help i've gotten here. :)

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