Permissions problem on my web page

At long last I was able to get a web page up on my ISP, their support had a nice telephone manner and said they'd get back to me a number of times, they omitted the word NEVER and I had to figure it out by trial and error - I digress, as usual. I created a public_html directory and uploaded some 9.1 RPM's I built. However, any attempt to acces the directory gives a "403 Forbidden" "You don't have permission to access those file(s).", permissions are world readable, so my guess is it's something to do with ownership, but I own the files. Assistance required as my ISP doesn't do Assistance. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====