Upgrade Apache 2.2 localhost configuration to work with 2.4

Published January 9th, 2016

Upgrading to Apache 2.4 (e.g. Wheezy to Jessie) can break localhost Apache configs and fail with the message AH01630: client denied by server configuration. Here is how to fix it

Old config:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localserver
DocumentRoot /home/chris/web/public_html
<Directory /home/chris/web/public_html>
Options +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

New config:

More info:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18392741/apache2-ah01630-client-denied-by-server-configuration

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#access