Access forbidden! for virtual host when documentroot is outside of apache default root

Question

I have a virtual host:

Listen 192.168.0.1:2020
NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.1:2020
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:2020>
   DocumentRoot "D:/docs"
</VirtualHost>

no when i try to access virtual host, i get 403 error:

Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

Edit
Apache is installed in D:/apache
while virtual host is in D:/docs

Solution 1

Problem solved with adding

<Directory D:/docs>
  Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

Solution 2

403 access forbidden means just that. Check that the apache process has permission to read and traverse the underlying filesystem d:/docs. If it doesn't then make it so.

Comments

[MrKen]

I found the solution

[MrKen]

Not completely solved the problem

[MightyPork]

this did not work for me

[MrKen]

@MightyPork try set the folder permission chmod 775