Fedora 10: Permission denied when accessing localhost
<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Abovemay have been your default setup in httpd.conf
Change AllowOverride to All. It will remove the error. When you are doing this on a production server, better refine those None to specific combination of Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
