Magento client denied by server configuration notice

Magento client denied by server configuration: /var/www/magento/app/etc/local.xml .. This is not the error, but just a message type thing displayed in apache error log and firebug console. Nothing to worry here, it’s just a security check from web server and you should ignore it.

If you don’t like it then you can turn it off by writing few lines of code in app/design/adminhtml/default/default/layout/local.xml

<layout>

    <default>

        <remove name="notification_security" />

        <remove name="notification_survey" />

    </default>

</layout>

Clear cache as usual, and you should get rid of this message.