Apache VirtualHost 403 Forbidden

I recently tried to set a test server up with Apache. The site must run under domain `www.mytest.com`. I always get a `403 Forbidden` error. I am on Ubuntu 10.10 server edition. The doc root is under dir `/var/www`. The following are my settings: **Content of /var/www** ls -l /var/www/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-08-04 11:26 mytest.com -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 177 2011-07-25 16:10 index.html **Content of the host file on the server (with IP 192.168.2.5)** cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 americano 192.168.2.5 americano.mytest.com www.mytest.com # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters **Site config** <VirtualHost *> ServerAdmin admin@mytest.com ServerName www.mytest.com ServerAlias mytest.com DocumentRoot "/var/www/mytest.com" ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/mytest-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/mytest-access_log combined # # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to. # <Directory "/var/www/mytest.com"> Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> I have no `.htaccess` file in my doc root. The permissions are set correctly (readable by www-data). If I type in the IP address from my desktop, the site shows up correctly. I changed the hosts file on my desktop to point `www.mytest.com` to the server's IP. When I use it, I get `403`. Since many functions of this site are sitename-sensitive, I have to be able to access the site by the domain name. Another funky thing is, even if all log files are created properly, they have no information regarding this error. I am stuck. Can anybody help?