I've just downloaded and installed Apache 2.4.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 for didactical purposes.
I used the default configuration provided with ./configure and I edited the httpd.conf ( /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf ) ONLY adding an "order" directive in a directory block <Directory "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"> #Other default directives Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny from 192.168.1.3 </Directory> Then I restarted the server and it worked as I guessed: the requests from 192.168.1.3 received a "403 Forbidden" response. But why the client on 192.168.1.3 receives also a (very basic) HTML page explaining the error, if I don't have any ErrorDocument directive? (and the few present in httpd.conf by default are commented) P.S. I don't attach httpd.conf because it's the default one, except for the three lines added above. If it's necessary, I'll attach it.
