Codeigniter 4 installation and img directory

I have installed Codeigniter 4 in the xampp   c:\xampp\htdocs\

I have added a virtual host in the httpd-vhosts  under C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra

I have also added  127.0.0.1 kpi.local in the etc/host

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\kpi\public"
    ServerName kpi.local
    <Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\kpi\public">
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

My codeigniter4 project name is kpi. everything is working fine and my project is running absolutely fine as http://kpi.local

but i have img folder in my public directory and base url in config is defined as http://kpi.local but when i check the html source code it is shown as http://kpi.local/public/img/logo.png. but unfortunately logo.png does not appear in the page and img directory doesn't seems to be accessible to my project and when i click on the above link it says 404 file not found.

Kindly help me how can allow images to be perfectly displayed in my project.

Thanks