If I understand correctly this is your scenario
1- User sends a request to http://site.com/appA
2- haproxy redirect http to https
3- haproxy choose backend
4- haproxy needs to remove /appA from path and sends the request to backend .
frontend http-in
bind 0.0.0.0:80
http-request redirect scheme https
default_backend maintenance
frontend https-in
bind 0.0.0.0:443 ssl crt /etc/haproxy/certs alpn h2,http/1.1
http-request add-header X-Forwarded-Proto https
acl appA_url url_beg /appA
use_backend appA if appA_url
default_backend maintenance
backend appA
balance roundrobin
http-request set-uri %[url,regsub(^/appA,/,)] if { path_beg /appA }
server web1 127.0.0.1:5001 check
backend maintenance
balance roundrobin