因为htaccess而包括问题

This is my folder structure:

    - app 
      -- views
       --- assets
        ---- css files and stuff
       --- index.phtml (contains the homepage)
         ---- logged-in
           ----- dashboard.phtml
    - index.php (contains autoloading, including the router, etc)
    - .htaccess

This is in my htaccess:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

The problem is: I want to include stuff from the assets folder in my dashboard.phtml. I've tried to include every possible path, but the problem is that my htaccess rewrites everything to my index.php and because of this, I keep having the same issues:

Warning: include_once(../components/footer.phtml): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Projects\projectname\app\views\logged-in\dashboard.phtml on line 158

How do I set my htaccess in a way that I don't have this problem anymore?

P.S. I had a hard time explaining this issue. If you have any questions, please let me know.