403 Forbidden error and (13)Permission denied

You don't have permission to access /directory name / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_fcgid/2.3.5 Server at server.com Port 80
You don't have permission to access /directory name / on this server.


HTTP Error 403 Forbidden browser error
/directory name /

error log showed
(13)Permission denied: cannot read directory

checked permissions of parent directory and found it to be 750 . changed it to 755 resolved


Mode User Group World
Read x x x
Write x
Execute x x x
Permission 755