I have just installed Ubuntu 13.10. I followed this guide (most of it) to setup LAMP. Then I was getting this error about

Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name

Which I solved by adding a line ServerName localhost to the httpd.conf file. After that I installed phpmyadmin using

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

Everything was working fine (i.e. phpmyadmin, mysql etc) After that I copied one of my projects to /var/www/ and when I try to access this I keep getting this error:

You don't have permission to access /AfaqTraders on this server.

I have tried

chmod -R o+w /var/www

to provide it the required (read write) permissions but I am still having this error and unable to get rid of it. Can any one please tell me what am I missing here. I am new to Ubuntu and don't know much about it, so apologize if any of this seems noob to you.

P.S. I have tried almost all of the questions here at askubuntu but wasn't able to get this to work.

Below is how my /etc/apache2/apache.conf file looks:

<Directory />

        Options FollowSymLinks

        AllowOverride None

    Require all denied 

</Directory>



<Directory /usr/share>  

        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks        

        AllowOverride None

    Require all granted

</Directory>



<Directory /var/www/>

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride All 

    Require all granted

</Directory>



<Directory /*> 

   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

   AllowOverride None

   Require all granted

</Directory>