I understand this issue is resolved but I happened to solve this same problem on my own.

The cause of

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

is actually the default configuration for an apache directory in httpd.conf.

# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect

# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that

# directory (and its subdirectories).

#

# First, we configure the “default” to be a very restrictive set of

# features.

#

<Directory “/”>

Options FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Order deny,allow

Deny from all # the cause of permission denied

</Directory>

Simply changing Deny from all to Allow from all should solve the permission problem.

Alternatively, a better approach would be to specify individual directory permissions on virtualhost configuration.

<VirtualHost *:80>

# Set access permission

<Directory “/path/to/docroot”>

Allow from all

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

As of Apache-2.4, however, access control is done using the new module mod_authz_host (Upgrading to 2.4 from 2.2). Consequently, the new Require directive should be used.

<VirtualHost *:80>

# Set access permission

<Directory “/path/to/docroot”>

Require all granted

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>