从通过Passenger / Apache运行的Sinatra应用程序的URL子文件夹提供PHP的问题？

We have a Sinatra app running in the domain root via passenger such as http://rootdomain.com/

We have some PHP pages we would like to serve in a subdirectory like so: http://rootdomain.com/example

The Sinatra app lives in a folder /var/webapps/homepage which is deployed to via mina/git.

Ideally, we would then place our PHP scripts in /var/www/example and have these pages served by Apache.

The method by which I am trying to do this is via Apache aliases:

httpd.conf

Alias /example/ /var/www/example
Alias /example /var/www/example

However, anything other than http://rootdomain.com/example/index.php returns a 404 (for example: http://rootdomain.com/example or http://rootdomain.com/example/`

My httpd.conf has a directive like so:

<Directory /var/www/example>
        Options All
        AllowOverride All
        order allow,deny
        allow from all
        DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</Directory>

A solution was found here:

https://serverfault.com/questions/530958/apache2-with-passenger-and-subdirectory-with-file-listing

Which is incredibly and simply disabling Passenger for the specified folder, so as in the case above it would be:

<Location /var/www/example/> 
  PassengerEnabled off 
</Location>

Within the <virtualhost>...</virtualhost> block.