Unable to open office documents

Hello,
I have a test SharePoint environment (1 SQL and 1 Apps/Web Server). I am trying to implement Office Web Apps on my farm (by the way, I have it functional on my prod environment with https) using http. I setup a new server to run OWA, I installed
it and also installed SP1 on it. I set my farm (Get-SPSecurityTokenServiceConfig).AllowOAuthOverHttp to True and SPWOPIZone to use internal-http.
When I try to open/preview a Word document, I get the following error message:
Any Ideas anybody?

Hi abdielh,
What error did you meet?
Whether you met this issue when you opened/viewed others type files, like Excel, PPT.
Please check the log file to find more information about this issue. The path of the log file is: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS.
There is an article about troubleshooting OWA issue, please take a look at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh269604(v=office.14).aspx
Also, here are some similar posts, please check if they are useful for you:
http://danmyhre.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/office-web-apps-2013-error-opening-file-from-sharepoint-2013/
http://www.sharepointsecurity.com/sharepoint/sharepoint-development/office-web-apps-sharepoint-2013-error-cant-open-or-view/
http://www.sharepoint24x7.com/2011/08/06/fix-it-%E2%80%93-office-web-apps-couldn%E2%80%99t-open-the-document-for-viewing-because-of-an-unexpected-error/
Best
Rgeards,
Wendy
Wendy Li
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