access denied on localhost .htacces

i have a private section where specific users can login on my system (restricted to 4 users)

i want to add IP restriction in the .htaccess using:

<Limit GET POST PUT>

order allow,deny

allow from 127.0.0.1

allow from 192.168

allow from 67.xx.xx

# etc..

deny from all

</Limit>

but i get this error:

Forbidden



You don't have permission to access / on this server.



Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

when i try to access this site locally (i have lamp on my desktop installed, my host file is setup correctly and my apache config is good too)

if I go to my site locally i can see my site with mod-rewrite and errordocument. everything is working fine

why do i get an access denied when i put the restrictin?

Source: Tips4all