Erroneous .htaccess file breaks Elastic Beanstalk - .htaccess

I have a PHP project up and running using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I wanted to set a few things using .htaccess. Unfortunately I misspelled something, causing a configuration error of the Web site. After removing the .htaccess file again, the Web site was still not working. I tried redeploying the project, restarting the app server(s) and even rebuilding the entire Elastic Beanstalk environment without luck.
In the end, I created a new Elastic Beanstalk application, and then it worked fine. But now I've written something wrong in the .htaccess file again, the new application has stopped working, even though I have removed the erroneous .htaccess file.
What might be causing this issue? And how can I fix it?
Edit
I've checked the logs /var/log/httpd/access_log and /var/log/httpd/error_log, but they have not been updated since the Web site broke down.

The part of the .htaccess file that caused the issue turned out to be a permanent redirect (301) from http to https. But https was not yet set up on the server, and hence the request failed. Since it was a 301 redirect, my computer stored it and performed it on any subsequent request, regardless of the browser.

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