Почему не работает сайт?

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[Twelfth Doctor]

Здравствуйте! Почему-то не работает сайт, вижу ошибку 403. В логах ошибок веб-сервера вижу:

[Sun Dec 25 15:20:32.074405 2016] [mpm_itk:warn] [pid 23666] (13)Permission denied: [client 95.79.134.157:35934] Couldn't read ***, closing connection.
[Sun Dec 25 15:20:32.108324 2016] [core:error] [pid 23667] (13)Permission denied: [client 95.79.134.157:35936] AH00035: access to /index.html denied (filesystem path '***') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Sun Dec 25 15:20:32.108438 2016] [core:error] [pid 23667] (13)Permission denied: [client 95.79.134.157:35936] AH00035: access to /index.cgi denied (filesystem path '***') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Sun Dec 25 15:20:32.108473 2016] [core:error] [pid 23667] (13)Permission denied: [client 95.79.134.157:35936] AH00035: access to /index.pl denied (filesystem path '***') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Sun Dec 25 15:20:32.108529 2016] [core:error] [pid 23667] (13)Permission denied: [client 95.79.134.157:35936] AH00035: access to /index.php denied (filesystem path '***') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Sun Dec 25 15:20:32.108640 2016] [core:error] [pid 23667] (13)Permission denied: [client 95.79.134.157:35936] AH00035: access to /index.xhtml denied (filesystem path '***') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
[Sun Dec 25 15:20:32.108671 2016] [core:error] [pid 23667] (13)Permission denied: [client 95.79.134.157:35936] AH00035: access to /index.htm denied (filesystem path '***') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path

Apache работает в режиме MPM-ITK.
Проблема решилась установкой на все файлы и папки прав 755, но меня это не совсем устраивает - если скрипты исполняются от имени пользователя,то, по логике вещей, максимальные права - это 700, или я чего-то не понимаю?