Quick HTTPD Error Question

[Brad De Vries]

Hey all, I have what I hope is a simple little httpd error.  I've
taken the default apache install (2.0.40) for Red Hat 9 and started up
the daemon(s).  I then placed a "pictures" sub-directory under the
/var/www/html directory, did a chown apache:apache on it, and placed
an index.html file in there.  I was hoping that I would simply be able
to view it from Firefox on the same box with the following URL:
  http://10.0.2.202/pictures/index.html

Instead I get a "Server error 500" with the message "The server
encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.
Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI
script."  Well since I'm on the only one accessing it and there is no
CGI scripts involved, at least none that I know of, what could be
causing this error?

Here are the two httpd logs that get updated when I access that URL:

==> access_log <==
10.0.2.202 - - [22/Aug/2005:16:34:47 -0400] "GET /pictures/index.html
HTTP/1.1" 500 1071 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6"
10.0.2.202 - - [22/Aug/2005:16:34:48 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico
HTTP/1.1" 404 1048 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6"

==> error_log <==
[Mon Aug 22 16:34:47 2005] [crit] [client 10.0.2.202] configuration
error:  couldn't perform authentication. AuthType not set!:
/pictures/index.html
[Mon Aug 22 16:34:48 2005] [error] [client 10.0.2.202] File does not
exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico


I'm sensing it has something to do with that "AuthType not set!"
message but I'm unclear as to where to go to fix it.  I've looked at:
  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/developer/request.html
but I didn't understand what has to change.

Any help would be appreciated.

Brad.