I changed
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All in .htaccess to " Require all denied " and restarted apache but it did not help.
Path for apache2.conf in ubuntu is /etc/apache2/apache.conf
Then I added following lines in apache2.conf and then my folder is working fine
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
and run " Sudo service apache2 restart "