apache permissions issue

I have a test server and a live server. Both running the same web application. On the test server’s .htaccess file, I have:

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from (myIPaddress)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine off
</IfModule>

Using this config, I am able to access the application just fine on my test server. But when I apply the exact same setting to my live server, I get error 403 Access Forbidden.

Any ideas?

I’m running opensuse 11.1 and apache2