.gitignore Question for /config/app.php Values

My live deployment is via Cloudways. It's as simple as can be. All I do is login and go to my application and click on "Deploy from GIT Repo" and it pulls it over to my live site and works like a charm.

The only issues are, of course I have to have a production .env file that I have in my .gitignore which works just fine.

HOWEVER, I also have different values set in the /config/app.php and no matter how I handle it so far it won't work like I need it to.

I guess it had already been tracked by github so I had to run these terminal commands to get it to stop tracking changes for me in the config/app.php.

git rm --cached config/app.php 
git commit -m "Stop tracking config/add.php"

Then the app.php file was not in my Commit version control in vscode.

But what that does is also remove it from the github repo entirely, so when I go to PULL to my cloudways hosting it always comes over without the app.php file. I then login to my FTP software and upload it manually but it is such an un-elegant solution surely there is a better way to utilize the .gitignore ?

Here are the two lines I have to manually toggle each time in my /config/app.php

Am I missing something?

    // : These 2 files uncommented in LOCAL VERSION
    'url' => env('APP_URL', 'http://local.injurymf.com'),
    'frontend_url' => env('APP_FRONTEND_URL', 'http://localhost:5173'),
    
    // : These 2 files uncommented in PRODUCTION VERSION
    // 'url' => env('APP_URL', 'https://app.injurymf.com'),
    // 'frontend_url' => env('APP_FRONTEND_URL', 'https://fantasymf.com'),

What's odd is the .env file on the Cloudways server got put there initially by me manually, but was always in the gitignore so it was never tracked, and therefore it's not deleted when I PULL from GITHUB in the backend of Cloudways Hosting, but for some reason it does delete the app.php in the config folder, I assume becuase it replaces the entire contents of the config folder.

I guess I could try to put /config* in my .gitignore after getting all the correct files manually on the server? Is this the way to go?

Thanks for the help.