remove cakephp 3 foldername from url

Question

I want to change the URL from:

www.example.com/api/

To:

www.example.com/

in which api folder i installed cakephp 3 and its working fine.

i want to remove api in the url and after this it looks like www.example.com.can someone please help me how to do this i don't want to change files from api folder to root directory. my api folder .htaccess is like below.

**.htaccess of api folder**
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]

</IfModule>

Answer 1

Add .htaccess in root (www) folder like

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    ^$    api/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) api/$1    [L]

</IfModule>