Apache2 authorisation error

hello all First, let me start off by saying that this will probably not be a bug, rather something missing in the upgrade notes, or something I messed up myself. I am running apache2 on Ubuntu 13.10. I recently upgraded from gitlab 6.3 to 6.4 and then 6.5. Upgrade went smootly, sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production gives no error whatsoever.

However, when launching the website, none of the css styles load. Looking at the error log I get [Fri Feb 07 12:08:48.082620 2014] [authz_core:error] [pid 6781] [client 192.168.0.240:36384] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /home/git/gitlab/public/assets/application-6b1758f92513ba536692bfcc7fd10b12.js, referer: https://git.luzzato.com/ and other so the same kind.

So I followed the troubleshooting notes, and checked that www-data was part of the git group. I then checked that all file permissions were corect in the assets folder and had group read from the root to the file. I also regenerated the asset folder to make sure that I hadn't damaged them by removing the folder, and then doing

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production

Files were correctly created but issue remains. I have the same apache .conf file as sugested in the recipees, and have had to change the document root from DocumentRoot /home/git/gitlab/public to DocumentRoot /home/git/gitlab/ for the css to load, but of course now all avatars, and comment attached pictures, will not show.

If anyone has any ideas about this I would appreciate it. Additional logs, conf files etc available on request