403 Forbidden Apache apache 1.3.31

Hi,

I am trying to set a few VirtualHost in my local machine (RedHat 9, Apache)
But I am not even able to set one. Somehow I get always the 403 error .
I have chaged the configuration several times after reading every message in this list.

I'll show my files:

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 pt.lindental.de

httpd.conf

<Directory "/home/phirsch/public_html">
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerName pt.lindental.de
ServerAlias pt.lindental.de
DocumentRoot /home/phirsch/public_html
ErrorLog /home/phirsch/log/error.log
CustomLog /home/phirsch/log/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>


I have reading and even writting permision for public_html.
Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance.

I just resolved the problem. Do not ask me how, because I do not know.
I change the permission access to the home directory and started working, but know it is even working with the previous permission
drwxr-xr-x
Thanks for the time you wasted reading my thread.