Not able to download iso files by web browser

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Issue

  • Not able to download iso images by web broweser.The iso images are stored in /var/www/html//pub/iso/ directory of the web server. When we try to download them it failed with following error message in the web browser
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Can see following error message in httpd error log

[Sat Mar 02 12:05:56 2013] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] (13)Permission denied: file permissions deny server access: /var/www/html/pub/iso/test.iso

Resolution

Make sure that the file permission is 644

chmod 644 /var/www/html/pub/iso/*

Root Cause

The permission of the iso files were 640

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