.htaccess: Fundementals
 

Hello All,
I've come for more help with the fundementals. Obvious, it has to do with .htaccess this time.
I have a folder that's being accessed by httpd /home/domain/public_html. When I make /home/domain/public_html/.htaccess with the following directive I receive "403 Forbidden."

Order deny,allow
Allow from 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.240
Deny from all

Permissions on the file, if they matter, are as follows:
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 70 Jul 30 23:53 .htaccess

SELinux permissions:
-rw-r--r-- user user user_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t .htaccess
(FC6 server)

Does anyone have any clues as to why this would work? Before you suggest that I should be using httpd.conf file to set these permissions, I want you to know that I'm configuring it from a virtual server. Thank you for your time.

Besides the file context have you set the SELinux boolean to allow access to files in home directories?

setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs on

Also, do you have an AllowOverride configured for the directory in httpd.conf? Without that, the .htaccess file is ignored.

Thank you for your responses macemoneta. I temporarily disables SELinux protection and I received the same error. And as for AllowOverride, that was set.

<VirtualHost 192.168.2.2:80>
SuexecUserGroup "#502" "#503"
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
DocumentRoot /home/domain/public_html
ErrorLog /home/domain/logs/error_log
CustomLog /home/domain/logs/access_log combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/domain/cgi-bin/
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5
<Directory /home/domain/public_html>
Options Indexes IncludesNOEXEC FollowSymLinks
allow from all
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /home/domain/cgi-bin>
allow from all
</Directory>
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /home/domain/svn
AuthType Basic
AuthName domain.com
AuthUserFile /home/domain/etc/svn.basic.passwd
Require valid-user
AuthzSVNAccessFile /home/domain/etc/svn-access.conf
Satisfy Any
</Location>
</VirtualHost>