The "Client denied by server configuration app/etc/local.xml" error that appear in the server error logs is returned by the Magento platform and will notify you of blocking access to the data content of this file.
You can ignore this message as normal, returned by normal security operations. This error will indicate that the local.xml file (which contains sensitive data) is inaccessible through the browser.
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