Web server returns 403 after I enabled FTP server

Question

Hi --
My web server has started returning a 403, coincidentally after I activated Server's FTP service.
This is what shows up in the error log:
Permission denied: /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
There is no .htaccess file in the Sites directory, however.
I added an empty one readable by owner, group, everyone (-rw-r--r--   1 <me>  wheel    0 Oct 15 16:42 .htaccess).
And I turned off the FTP service.
But I still get the same error.
Mods look ok to my eye, which is unreliable:
$ pwd
/Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default
$ ls -alG
total 296
drwxr-xr-x+ 21 root     wheel     714 Oct  9 15:57 .
drwxr-x---   3 <me>     wheel     102 Oct 15 16:44 ..
drwxr-xr-x+  2 root     wheel      68 Mar 10  2013 NetBoot
-rw-r--r--+  1 root     wheel  102749 Feb  1  2013 Server.png
Whoops.

Answer 1

Oh, no: Sites' mods are totally wrong, of course. It needs to be world-executable.
I did this to fix:
sudo chmod o+x /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites