Playing nice with Laravel backend on Apache

[bilogic]

1. I'm exploring how I can merge vitepress with Laravel
2. I have configured Laravel to respond to https://example.com/laravel and copied all of vitepress dist into the root of the domain
3. So, when I visit https://example.com, I see vitepress
4. I navigate to https://example.com/laravel, and expected to see the Laravel page, but instead see vitepress' 404
5. If I were to press ctrl + F5 or ctrl + shift + R, I was able to break out of vitepress' 404 page and see Laravel's HTML
6. I double checked by running curl https://example.com/laravel, I see the HTML belongs to the Laravel page
7. So strictly speaking, I believe Apache is configured correctly
8. What would be great is if there is a way for vitepress to let /laravel (and others) through to the server, but still be able to run offline

Possible?