I've set up XAMPP on a Windows 7 machine, and I want to restrict access to the htdocs folder to only requests from the local machine. C:\Xampp\htdocs is the web root folder.

I have the following in my apache/conf/httpd.conf file:

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>


<Directory "C:/Xampp/htdocs">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All

    order deny,allow
    deny from all
    allow from 127.0.0.1
    allow from localhost
</Directory>

All my .htaccess files are blank.

But when I navigate to the web root folder via a browser, I get the following message:

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

I tried adding the IP restrictions to the <Directory>...</Directory>, but it made no difference.

What am I doing wrong here?