Apache2 treat htdocs/act as root except htdocs/dev / Any Help at all is appreciated

So this may have been answered and I just simply couldn't find it OR maybe it just isn't possible but any help would be appreciated

SO I am trying to get an intranet site set up
Root Directory is htdocs
Server name is home
I have two folders in htdocs, one named act and one named dev

I want to set it up so when you go to home/
It takes you to htdocs/act

When you type home/_dev
It takes you to htdocs/dev
Although if that's not possible, I would be ok with home/dev taking you to htdocs/dev

I would also like it, when you just specify a folder, it assumes you want to index.php file (unless you specify a file such as login.php)

• Currently when you type home/ it does take you to htdocs/act/index.php
• If I specify a file, such as home/login.php it does load htdocs/act/login.php
• I can even navigate to a folder inside act such as
  home/demo loads htdocs/act/demo/index.php
• I can even navigate to another file in that folder such as
  home/demo/login.php does load htdocs/act/demo/login.php
• I do like all of that HOWEVER htdocs/dev is completely inaccessible.

• Currently I have

etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf

DocumentRoot /htdocs

etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

DocumentRoot /htdocs

etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

DocumentRoot /htdocs

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /htdocs>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /htdocs/act>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /htdocs/dev>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

# Include generic snippets of statements
IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf

# Include the virtual host configurations:
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr note
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

htdocs/.htaccess

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^_dev(.*) /dev$1

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/act [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /act/$1 [L]

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]