I'm trying to deploy a Laravel 5.6 app on a Debian 9 based VPS with Apache, but the server seem to be unable to handle the requests when i try to access the first page,and i keep having
"Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."
I've already looked at this
Laravel htaccess Getting a 500 Internal Server Error on Laravel 5+ Ubuntu 14.04 https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/install-laravel-on-ubuntu-for-apache/
My .htaccess file that i placed inside the public folder
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
The configuration file places inside /etc/apache/sites-available
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName picodem.dev
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/picodem-project/public
    <Directory /var/www/html/picodem-project>
    Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
I don't have a domain name yet, and the picodem.dev is just dummy, so i'm  accessing the app via the Browser using the IP address of the VPS, but i'm still not sure what's causing the problem...