Apache2 Option index on centos 6.3 - indexing

Question

On a newly installed Centos 6.3
I imported the config from Ubuntu for a virtualhost. Here is the piece of config
DocumentRoot /otherhome/test.cofares.net
ServerName test.cofares.net
<Directory "/otherhome/test.cofares.net">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
A request to the http://test.cofares.net I get the folowwing error in the error log
Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /otherhome/test.cofares.net/
The directory index worked for a sub directory http://test.cofares.net/test is OK
Any suggestions what is missing?
The same config work well with Ubuntu Server 12.04.

Answer 1

Try this. And make sure to restart apache after applying:
<Directory "/otherhome/test.cofares.net">
Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order Allow, Deny
Allow from All
Satisfy All
</Directory>
And perhaps try this with Satisfy Any instead:
<Directory "/otherhome/test.cofares.net">
Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order Allow, Deny
Allow from All
Satisfy Any
</Directory>
EDIT: Those didn’t seem to work? Then try this. Note I am setting up the whole <VirtualHost> directive & removed quotes from the <Directory> directive:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /otherhome/test.cofares.net
ServerName test.cofares.net
<Directory /otherhome/test.cofares.net>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

After digging a little I noticed that thire is a global rule (in conf.d/welcome.conf) that prevent indexing the / directory of any virtual server
By removing it it is now ok
Here is the rule that must be change
<LocationMatch "^/+$">
Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html
</LocationMatch>