For what its worth, this is my directive in apache 2.4.6 on rhel7.5. It works perfectly, but I encountered similar issues to those reported until I removed the "deny,allow
Thanks Griffin.
I tested this on my system and it's working as expected(2.4.6). Frederic, would you be able to test this directive on your server? If it's still not working, please open a support ticket at
Another option is to use check_http to confirm if Apache is running or not. Otherwise, please open a support ticket ( and reference this post). Thanks.
Can you can reach the server-status page via a browser? If you add your IP to that list, and test it successfully, then you have removed Apache from the problem list.