enabled site:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName projects.dev

        DocumentRoot /home/kevin/projects
        <Directory /home/kevin/projects>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

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/etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 localhost projects.dev

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Apache log:
Permission denied: /home/kevin/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

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