Working proxy configuration via Apache to NGINX

Kobo On Your Own Server
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Good day dear community. For a few days now I’ve been trying to set up a kobotoolbox server via Apache2 > Kobotoolbox proxy chain, but I get the standard “Waiting for environment to be ready. It can take a few minutes. …”
Got SSL certificates via Apache for my domain kobo.***.com
In certbot itself, when getting them, I wrote the following domains:

  1. kobo.***.com
  2. kf.kobo.***.com
  3. kc.kobo.***.com
  4. ee.kobo.***.com
    As a result, I received one certificate for all 4 domain names.
    I would like to ask you - could someone share an anonymized example of the contents of their working Apache config file ? Most likely I made so many attempts at this configuration that I got a mess of everything.
    And also need to do for each domain name separate virtual hosting on Apache ? Is it necessary to additionally configure kobotoolbox or when installing is enough to select that I want to use HTTPS and select that I have my own proxy ?
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Good afternoon. @elvera33ford thank you for your quick response. It was very useful. I made the configuration according to your advice, but unfortunately i still get “Waiting for environment to be ready. It can take a few minutes. …” Can I ask you to evaluate my virtual host configurations for correctness?

<VirtualHost *:80> 

    ServerName kobo.***.com
      ProxyPreserveHost On 
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/ 
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8080/ 

</VirtualHost> 

<VirtualHost *:443> 

    ServerName kobo.***.com
    SSLEngine on 
    SSLCertificateFile      /etc/letsencrypt/live/kobo.***.com/fullchain.pem 
    SSLCertificateKeyFile   /etc/letsencrypt/live/kobo.***.com/privkey.pem 

    ProxyPreserveHost On 
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/ 
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8080/ 
    RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto https 
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/kobo_error.log 
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/kobo_access.log combined 

</VirtualHost>

and for auxiliary domain names like kf.kobo.***.com.

<VirtualHost *:80> 

    ServerName kf.kobo.***.com
     ProxyPreserveHost On 
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/ 
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8080/ 

</VirtualHost> 

<VirtualHost *:443> 
    ServerName kf.kobo.***.com
    SSLEngine on 
    SSLCertificateFile      /etc/letsencrypt/live/kobo.***.com/fullchain.pem 
    SSLCertificateKeyFile   /etc/letsencrypt/live/kobo.***.com/privkey.pem 
    ProxyPreserveHost On 
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/ 
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8080/ 
    RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto https 
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/kf_error.log 
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/kf_access.log combined 
</VirtualHost>

I also tried these variants where I wrote Redirect permanent / https://kf.kobo.***.com/ in the

<VirtualHost *:80> 

    ServerName kf.kobo.***.com
       Redirect permanent / https://kf.kobo.***.com/ 

</VirtualHost>

Here’s the Apache port configuration

Listen 80 

<IfModule ssl_module> 
Listen 443 
</IfModule> 

<IfModule mod_gnutls.c> 
Listen 443 
</IfModule>

Maybe it’s not Apache ? How else can it be checked ?
Thank you in advance for your reply

P.s. I have a suspicion that my Xiaomi BE5000 router is somehow incorrectly forwarding ports 80 and 443 and clogging it by Xiaomi admin panel (but this is not certain).

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Update.
The problem with port forwarding on Xiaomi BE5000 router is solved. But “Waiting for environment to be ready. It can take a few minutes. …” still continues and Kobo does not start. Can someone tell me in what logs I can try to find what the problem is? Thanks