Apache 500 Internal Server Error on my virtual host

Question

I have my web app projects located in a folder in /media/disk1/Projects. I want to serve them using an Apache virtualhost at http://lab/.

This is how I set up my virtual host:

1. Copied /etc/apache2/sites-available/default to /etc/apache2/sites-available/lab

2. Edited /etc/apache2/sites-available/lab to the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin tim@localhost
ServerName lab

DocumentRoot /media/disk1/Projects
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>
# <Directory /var/www/>
<Directory /media/disk1/Projects>
    Require all granted
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

3. Added 127.0.0.1 lab to my /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.0.1   lab

4. Accessed http://lab only to get 500 Internal Server Error

All the subfolder permissions are set to drwxrwxrwx But my http://lab/phpmyadmin works.

Help me resolve. Thanks.

Solution

Error solved by checking this forum; http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=8603 On my /var/log/apache2/error.log the last error was:

[Wed Oct 09 09:10:04 2013] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] configuration error:  couldn't perform authentication. AuthType not set!: /

So I followed someone elses solution and commented the line

# Require all granted

just under on my /etc/apache2/sites-available/lab and TADA! I was able to list my Projects directory in my browser.

Comments

[ken]

That's the correct answer that fixed the problem. Thank you!

[David Okwii]

Fixed mine too although I can't explain why!!

[CoderGuy123]

Commenting that line made my error transform into 403 forbidden, so clearly it is not always redundant.