Apache won't follow symlinks | 403 permission denied

# Test whether apache has access to directory.
sudo -u www-data ls /root/my/website
 
# Not safe but you can fine tune access restriction later
chmod 755 /root/
chmod 755 /root/my
chmod 755 /root/my/website

Apache

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