What is the Apache equivalent of nginx's try_files directive - apache

Question

Please help, i'm new to server configuration.
I'm trying to write the equivalent of the nginx server configuration below in Apache's virtual host configuration.
server {
root /path/to/public/root/directory;
server_name myservername.test;
location /api {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location /web {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:80;
}
}
From what i have researched, I tried to do the following
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myservername.test
DocumentRoot "/path/to/public/root/directory"
<Directory /path/to/public/root/directory/>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} "=/web" [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} "=/api"
RewriteRule . index.php [QSA, L]
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myservername.test
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
</VirtualHost>
but it did not work. I have tweaked the code from top to bottom but my apache server keeps throwing errors.
My Apache version is 2.4.52
Note: It is neccessary i do this in apache's vhost and not in the .htaccess file
Please help. thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I finally got it to work.
The first mistake i made was forgetting to enable mod_rewrite, mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http.
second mistake was i created two vhost with the same ServerName value, apache seems to ignore one of them
After enabling those apache modules, here is the final result that worked for me
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myservername.test
#
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_URI}" "=/web" [OR]
RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_URI}" "=/api"
RewriteRule . index.php [QSA]
#
ProxyPass "/" "http://localhost:80/"
ProxyPassReverse "/" "http://localhost:80/"
</VirtualHost>