403 Forbidden error after symfony 2 reinstall - apache

Question

I am building a web app on top of the symfony2 framework. Everything used to work fine until, due to some problems, i had to wipe the production symfony folder clean and reinstall everything inside the symfony project folder.
Now every request to the server returns a 403, You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Note: the server software is apache2 running on ubuntu.
I deployed using capifony, running cap deploy:setup and cap deploy.
Nothing changed in any apache config files or anything outside the root directory of the symfony project. The server root points to symfonyRoot/current/web, the .htaccess file in that directory looks as follows:
DirectoryIndex app.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(/.+)/(.*)::\2$
RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=BASE:%1]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^app\.php(/(.*)|$) %{ENV:BASE}/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule .? - [L]
RewriteRule .? %{ENV:BASE}/app.php [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
RedirectMatch 302 ^/$ /app.php/
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
Edit:
from the apache2.conf file:
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
from the virtual host config:
<Directory "/var/www/SymfonyRoot/current/web">
Require all granted
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
Options None
</Directory>
I am sure that it is just one simple thing that i am forgetting somewhere, but i can't figure out why the server is denying permission to any routes.

Answer 1

So, i figured out what was wrong:
Options FollowSymLinks was not turned on for the /var/www/SymfonyRoot/current/web folder.
just added Options FollowSymLinks to the .htaccess file and everything works like a charm again!