apache 403 help please/

I have been trying for days to get apache to work, but I keep on getting 403 error message.

The main document root for my server is /var/www/html
if the domain is pointing to this directory all is ok.

but..... when I change the document root to for example /home/sites/site1/www the servers keeps on giving 403s please could someone advise as to what I need to do or what is going wrong.

Are there special setting to the dir? like chmod 755

What about the user does he need specific access like 711. If so how do I change that?

Do I need to have a .htaccess in the directory or not?

Thanks

 

 

 

 

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