Laravel api on apache2 ubuntu server 404 not found - laravel

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I have a locally created laravel RESTFUL API and I deployed it on my ec2 ubuntu server using git.
I've set it like my main website.. /var/www/api.myapp.com/public_html/myapp-be and for its config I have this /etc/apache2/sites-available/api.myapp.com.conf.
Almost all blogs and tutorials that I found about deploying laravel on apache2 ubuntu server were almost the same and I've followed them all. However, when I test my API on postman with https://api.myapp.com/api/somefunctionhere it says 404 not found, The requested URL was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Server at api.myapp.com port 443.
But when I test my local api on postman, it works fine, thus, I confirm that nothing is wrong with my laravel.
My config looks like this
<VirtualHost *:80>
<Directory /var/www/api.myapp.com/public_html/myapp-be/public/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
ServerAdmin developer#myapp.com
ServerName api.myapp.com
Redirect permanent / https://api.myapp.com/
ServerAlias api.myapp.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/api.myapp.com/public_html/myapp-be/public
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log combined
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =api.myapp.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =api.myapp.com
RewriteRule ^ https://${SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
<Directory /var/www/api.myapp.com/public_html/myapp-be/public/>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ServerName api.myapp.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/api.myapp.com/public_html/myapp-be/public
</VirtualHost>
Is there a spot that I missed here? Obviously I missed a spot but I've been looking for it for almost 3hours already and still wont work.
Any idea guys? Thanks!
UPDATE: I tried adding /public to the prefix and it worked, I don't even know why it worked - https://api.myapp.com/public/api/somefunctionhere