I am trying a new version of apache on Solaris. I jumped from 2.058 to 2.2.9. The httpd.conf from the old to the new was no longer valid, so i started again. Made the classic mistake of trying to do everything before testing and the whole configuration was screwed up so i started again. There was an error in the browser i had not seen before:

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access / on this server

So i looked at all the permission files, all ok. I had another look at the httpd.conf file and found the <Directory> directive has changed to “a very restrictive set of features”. I changed “Deny from all” to “Allow from all” and it is now working.