Permision of /var/www/html

I have a problem with apache.
The directory /var/www/html is no longer accessible (webmail, phpmyadmin, all...)
I have a 403 error.

I tried to give the command
chmod-R 755/var/www/html
webapps.webapps chown-R /var/www/html

The result does not change.
I use suPHP.
What can I do?

Please check the permissions of /var/www, not /var/www/html:

smtalk said:

Please check the permissions of /var/www, not /var/www/html:

Code:

ls -l /var | grep www

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[root@srv ~]# ls -l /var | grep www
dr-xr-x--- 9 webapps webapps 4096 Jan 29 2011 www

Please try "chmod 551 /var/www".

smtalk said:

Please try "chmod 551 /var/www".

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Very nice.
Thanks!

Since a lot of DirectAdmin users may not understand the fine point of the execute bit on a directory, this may be a good place to explain it:

If you set the execute bit as suggested by smtalk, you've ;told apache to let anyone not in the user or group owning the file to descend into the Directory. Even if a directory is given read rights, you can't descend into it to read the files in it unless the execute bit is set.

Jeff