Why am I getting Network error: 403 Forbidden in firebug for files I am not trying to access?

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Published on 2012-09-25T16:09:11Z Indexed on 2012/09/26 3:39 UTC
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QUESTIONs

I'd like to know

why I am getting Network error: 403 Forbidden in firebug for files that I am not trying to access?
is it likely to cause any serious problems on the webserver?
how to fix it.
Why is my browser trying to access those files in the error message?

DETAILS

I’m using wampserver 2.2 to access a folder via the browser. The browser is on the same computer as the server. The computer is running windows 7 ultimate.

When I view a web folder via my browser hXXp://localhost/folder

I can see the folder contents ok enter image description here

but in firebug I get Network error: 403 Forbidden

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I’m not deliberately trying to access those files in the error msgs. You will notice they are in a completely different folder to the one I am looking at.

I check the apache_error.log and see

[Wed Sep 26 00:05:10 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: C:/apache2, referer: hxxp://localhost/folder/

Wampserver 2.2 is installed on D drive.

I took a look at the httpd.conf file but I couldn't find any references to c:

When I look in Apache’s access.log I see

127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2012:00:05:10 +0900] "GET /icons/blank.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 217
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2012:00:05:10 +0900] "GET /icons/back.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 216
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2012:00:05:10 +0900] "GET /icons/text.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 216
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2012:00:05:10 +0900] "GET /icons/unknown.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 219
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2012:00:05:10 +0900] "GET /icons/folder.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 218

CONFIGURATION

Wampserver 2.2 installed on Drive D
Apache 2.2.22
PHP 5.4.3
MySQL 5.5.24
Firebug 1.10.3
Firefox 15.0.1

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