[users@httpd] permissions problem

["Dr. Stephen Judd" <sjudd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm confused about something in the security model of my Apache-run website.

I can access all the files that are grandchildren of my DocumentRoot, 

(i.e. any file in DocumentRoot/radar is accessible),

but none that are great grandchildren

(i.e. any file in DocumentRoot/radar/data is not accessible).

Instead I get this:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /radar/data/hi3.html on this server.

The message dumped out on the httpd/error_log is this:

[Mon Jan 30 15:54:49 2006] [error] (13)Permission denied: access to /radar/data/hi3.html denied

Note that this is NOT a "forbidden by rule" message. Hence I believe the issue should 

be one of file permissions, not one of Apache configuration.

The permissions on the radar directory are these:

drwxr-xr-x  3 radar radargrp 4096 Jan 27 22:21 radar

The permissions on the data directory are these:

drwxrwxrwx  4 radar radargrp 4096 Jan 26 09:13 data

More open you cannot get!

Why can radar/data/hi3.html not be accessed???

sj