apache You don't have permission to access (ubuntu amazon ec2) - amazon-ec2

Question

I've created and installed Apache on amazon EC2 few times before.
But this time I cannot seems to get apache to run the code that I put on a Volume I created and mounted on /data1/
I use the following 000-default.conf in my /etc/apache2/sites-available that is already enabled
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com
RewriteEngine On
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
#DocumentRoot /var/www/html/web
DocumentRoot /data1/proj/ba/web
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /data1/proj/ba/web>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>
# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet
And I get http://ec2-54-197-1-250.compute-1.amazonaws.com/
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at
ec2-54-197-1-250.compute-1.amazonaws.com Port 80
I tried
sudo adduser $USER www-data
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /data1/proj
sudo chmod -R g+rw /data1/proj
and also other variation of these cmds
Now the strange thing is that if I change the DocumentRoot to /var/www/html/web
and create a symlink sudo ln -s /data1/proj/ba/web/ /var/www/html/web
than it is working! this is ok for now but in the future it might be a problem for me.
Any idea what i'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

here is the new format:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName myproj.co.il
ServerAlias www.myproj.co.il
RewriteEngine On
ExpiresActive On
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log vhost_combined
DocumentRoot /data1/projects/myproj/
<Directory /data1/projects/myproj/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
<FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpg|png|js|css)$">
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
</FilesMatch>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Note the Require all granted line that replaced the
Order allow,deny
allow from all