Fail2ban not detecting "...client denied by server configuration..."

[Victor]

Fail2ban starts properly and creates "apache" jail with proper log files:

2014-11-12 00:27:49,973 fail2ban.server : INFO Changed logging target to /var/log/fail2ban.log for Fail2ban v0.8.11
2014-11-12 00:27:49,974 fail2ban.jail : INFO Creating new jail 'apache'
2014-11-12 00:27:50,084 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'apache' uses pyinotify
2014-11-12 00:27:50,186 fail2ban.jail : INFO Initiated 'pyinotify' backend
2014-11-12 00:27:50,193 fail2ban.filter : INFO Added logfile = /var/log/apache2/celulaires_error.log
2014-11-12 00:27:50,196 fail2ban.filter : INFO Added logfile = /var/log/apache2/error.log
2014-11-12 00:27:50,198 fail2ban.filter : INFO Added logfile = /var/log/apache2/renault19_error.log
2014-11-12 00:27:50,200 fail2ban.filter : INFO Added logfile = /var/log/apache2/default_error.log
2014-11-12 00:27:50,201 fail2ban.filter : INFO Added logfile = /var/log/apache2/localweb_error.log
2014-11-12 00:27:50,202 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set maxRetry = 6
2014-11-12 00:27:50,203 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set findtime = 600
2014-11-12 00:27:50,204 fail2ban.actions: INFO Set banTime = 600
2014-11-12 00:27:50,249 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'apache' started

But it is not detecting the following regex, where it should:

[Wed Nov 12 00:28:24.094238 2014] [access_compat:error] [pid 13277] [client 108.59.11.116:41054] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/renault19/administrator
[Wed Nov 12 00:28:45.981111 2014] [access_compat:error] [pid 13314] [client 108.59.11.116:41601] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/renault19/administrator
[Wed Nov 12 00:28:48.622373 2014] [access_compat:error] [pid 13303] [client 108.59.11.116:41686] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/renault19/administrator
[Wed Nov 12 00:28:50.666745 2014] [access_compat:error] [pid 13304] [client 108.59.11.116:41781] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/renault19/administrator
[Wed Nov 12 00:28:53.132059 2014] [access_compat:error] [pid 13311] [client 108.59.11.116:41878] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/renault19/administrator
[Wed Nov 12 00:28:55.211217 2014] [access_compat:error] [pid 13270] [client 108.59.11.116:41956] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/renault19/administrator
[Wed Nov 12 00:28:57.758862 2014] [access_compat:error] [pid 13268] [client 108.59.11.116:42066] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/renault19/administrator
[Wed Nov 12 00:28:59.948193 2014] [access_compat:error] [pid 13320] [client 108.59.11.116:42148] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/renault19/administrator

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: fail2ban 0.8.11-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-39.66-generic 3.13.11.8
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-39-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 12 00:40:06 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-05-04 (1287 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20110211.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: fail2ban
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-10-06 (36 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.fail2ban.jail.conf: 2014-11-12T00:27:29.106783

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Michael (michaelrachel)]

I have similar problem:

fail2ban does not detect / bans the follwing entries in /var/log/apache2/error.log

[Tue Aug 25 16:10:51.646091 2015] [access_compat:error] [pid 4791] [client 77.252.213.157:4966] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/wp-login.php
[Tue Aug 25 16:13:58.386702 2015] [access_compat:error] [pid 4789] [client 52.18.200.197:65451] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /var/www//wp-login.php