"client denied by server configuration" with "AllowOverride All"

Question

I've installed CentOS 6.3 with Apache 2.2 on a VM. I'm trying to set up a LAMP stack with these VirtualHosts:

• localhost loads the path /var/www/html/
• lcl.mydomain.com loads the path /var/www/html/dev_lcl/

In httpd.conf I added:

NameVirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80

Then I added the virtualhosts.conf file:

<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
    ServerName localhost
    <Directory "/var/www/html/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log_localhost
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log_localhost "combined"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/dev_lcl/
    ServerName lcl.mydomain.com
    <Directory "/var/www/html/dev_lcl/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log_dev_lcl
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log_dev_lcl "combined"
</VirtualHost>

This gives me the error:

client denied by server configuration

When I remove AllowOverride All both ServerNames load, but mod_rewrite doesn't work and I need it. How can I resolve this?

Answer 1

I found the solution. I had added to the .htaccess file:

order deny,allow
allow from XXX.XX.

This was causing the problem. Once I removed that it worked fine.