httpd config file and FC6

[Gianluca Sforna]

I am seeing something rather strange here:

I have a config file in /etc/httpd/conf.d which says:

<Directory /usr/share/mantis>
	Order 	deny,allow
        Deny    from all
	Allow	from localhost
</Directory>

Now, if I point the browser to:
http://localhost/mantis

I am denied access but it works if change the "Allow" line to:
Allow from 127.0.0.1

/etc/hosts has the line:
127.0.0.1       hal9001 localhost.localdomain   localhost

So I am confused, since I am quite sure this used to work in the past...