Apache httpd page access fails due to "(13)Permission denied: access to page denied"

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Issue

  • We're trying to access a page from our httpd DocumentRoot. We get a 403 forbidden response back, and httpd logs the following error:

    (13)Permission denied: access to page denied
    

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS) 2.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Apache httpd

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