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A colleague helped me with this one. Below I post the answer.

The proper configuration is:

The issue turned out to be that the .htaccess file was serving example.com/index.html rather than just example.com when accessing the root of the angularjs app. That in turn didn't play well with ui-router because the $stateProvider doesn't serve filenames at the end of urls without being explicit. Accessing example.com/index.html did indeed cause my page to throw a 404 error $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('404');

Adding the following code fixed my issue.

Set your external_url to the URL users use to reach your GitLab server. e.g. gitlab.server.de according to your Apache config.

Additionally, you'll want to fix the proxy headers to deal with the protocol change if you're not using mutual TLS.

Most importantly, you'll need to explicitly configure GitLab's internal nginx to listen on the port you've specified in your proxy/proxypass config and not use https.

So, something like this:

Unless you are setting up a local development environment to simulate a more restrictive live server environment then...

Not sure why you want to do this, as your current config (setting the DocumentRoot to /public) would seem to be the most desirable (and simple) setup.

Setting the DocumentRoot to the parent directory and rewriting to the /public subdirectory instead is often a workaround when you are unable to change the DocumentRoot. This is ultimately more work and exposes the /public subdirectory, which now has to be blocked/redirected to prevent direct access.

Anyway, moving to a /public subdirectory in the public HTML space...

Having set the DocumentRoot to /var/www/html there are two ways to accomplish this, with either 1 or 2 .htaccess files. (Although, this also raises another question... why are you using .htaccess when you have access to the server config? Although there can be perfectly valid reasons for this.)

It is arguably easier to do this with two .htaccess files. One in the document root that rewrites all requests to the /public subdirectory and one in the /public subdirectory that rewrites requests to your MVC app, in much the same way you are doing already. The presence of the /public/.htaccess file also serves to prevent a rewrite loop.

For example:

Unconditionally calling session_start() does exactly what it says: it starts a new session without any if or then; always check for the session ID first. Also make sure, that the cookie-domain has been set up properly (this value might not match). For reference: setcookie().

Version 3.3.10 is based on Amazon Linux 2 (AL2), however all your settings are for AL1 which do not work in the new version.

To property setup your httpd in EB based on AL2 you have to use .platform folder, not .ebextentions. All details are in AWS Docs under Reverse proxy configuration and Configuring Apache HTTPD sections.

The problem is your todo #TODO: Understand name compose logic. You need to set this name value to the name of the route of the VirtualService. Also you need to use a typed_per_filter_config with a type LuaPerRoute.

If your VirtualService looks something like that:

Both the RedirectMatch (mod_alias) and RewriteRule (mod_rewrite) directives match against the URL-path only, which notably excludes the query string.

To match against the query string you need to use RewriteRule with an additional condition (RewriteCond directive) that checks against the QUERY_STRING server variable.

This rule also needs to go near the top of the .htaccess file, before any existing rewrites.

For example: