Apache Permission denied for /srv/www: unable to check .htaccess file but not for /var/www

Question

I\'ve hit a problem on Centos 6.5:

[Mon Dec 28 12:10:52 2012] [a] [client 127.0.0.1] (13) Permission denied: /srv/www/website/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to chec

Answer 1

Are you sure that the user "apache" can cross the folder "/src" ? What's the owner and the permission of the folder "/src" ?