AH01276: Cannot serve directory /var/www/html/public

I am running laravel project on ubuntu with apache2 server and getting the below error when anyone download any invoice/shippment lebel.

The url I am accessing is https://staging.myweb.com

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource. Apache/2.4.52(Ubuntu) Server at staging.myweb.com Port 443

error I found in my apache error.log file is

[Sat Feb 03 11:41:30.589613 2024] [autoindex:error] [pid 895124]AH01276: Cannot serve directory /var/www/html/public/: No matchingDirectoryIndex (index.php,index.html) found, and server-generateddirectory index forbidden by Options directive

Here is my virtual host file

000-default.conf

<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        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost        DocumentRoot /var/www/html        DirectoryIndex index.php index.html        # 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            DirectoryIndex index.php index.html<Directory /var/www/html/>                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews                AllowOverride All                Require all granted    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html</Directory><Directory /var/www/html/public/>                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews                AllowOverride All                Require all granted    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html</Directory>        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.confRewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =staging.myweb.comRewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]</VirtualHost>

www.staging.myweb.com-le-ssl.conf

<IfModule mod_ssl.c><VirtualHost *:443>   ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html<Directory /var/www/html/>                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews                AllowOverride All                Require all granted                DirectoryIndex index.php index.html</Directory><Directory /var/www/html/public/>                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews                AllowOverride All                Require all granted                DirectoryIndex index.php index.html</Directory>CacheQuickHandler onCacheLock onCacheLockPath /tmp/mod_cache-lockCacheLockMaxAge 5CacheIgnoreHeaders Set-Cookie    CacheEnable disk /    CacheHeader on    CacheDefaultExpire 800    CacheMaxExpire 64000    CacheIgnoreNoLastMod On    ExpiresActive on    ExpiresDefault A300Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.confSSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/staging.myweb.com/fullchain.pemSSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/staging.myweb.com/privkey.pem</VirtualHost></IfModule>

I have added below code for testing in these VH files

<Directory /var/www/html/public/>            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews            AllowOverride All            Require all grantedDirectoryIndex index.php index.html</Directory>

and htaccess files are

root

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>    Options +FollowSymLinks    RewriteEngine On    RewriteBase /    # Rewrite to public folder    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [L]    # Rewrite to index.php    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/index\.php    RewriteRule ^(/)?$ /public/index.php [L]</IfModule>

public folder

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c><IfModule mod_negotiation.c>        Options -MultiViews -Indexes</IfModule>    RewriteEngine On    # Handle Authorization Header    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]    # Handle Front Controller...    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]</IfModule>

Here are the permission and ownership of html

Even I have tried with the ownership change to www-data but no luck.

EDITif I open browser and click on disable cache then website started working fine