Uploaded avatar image not getting displayed in GitLab CE interface

Infrastructure as Code & Cloud Native
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I am running GitLab CE on Ubuntu based AWS instance.

On my gitlab config /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb, I have only the following code un-commented.

external_url 'http://gitlab.betasquirrel.com:8888'
unicorn['worker_timeout'] = 6000
unicorn['port'] = 8888
web_server['external_users'] = ['www-data']
nginx['enable'] = false
ci_nginx['enable'] = false

Reconfigured by running,

sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
sudo gitlab-ctl restart

And configured virtual host for apache on /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName gitlab.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /opt/gitlab/

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8888/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8888/

# Custom log file locations
ErrorLog /opt/bitnami/apache2/logs/gitlab_error.log
CustomLog /opt/bitnami/apache2/logs/gitlab_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

When I updated profile avatar, the file is getting uploaded on /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/public/uploads/user/avatar/2/avatar.png

But the image is not getting displayed in web interface and the image location attached to interface is http://gitlab.mydomain.com:8888/uploads/user/avatar/2/avatar.png

I can directly access the avatar on http://gitlab.mydomain.com/uploads/user/avatar/2/avatar.png. How can I rewrite all the uploads folder request on port 8888 to not have the port number?

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  1. Curious why you didn’t stand up Gitlab in the recommended default configuration served by NGINX instead of by Apache?

  2. Why aren’t you doing this, and leaving nginx on?

    external_url ‘https://gitlab.betasquirrel.com’

    don’t put any of the disable-nginx or unicorn config stuff.

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Thanks, fixed by removing port number from external_url