Apache logs other user read permissions [closed]

We have several developers who maintain the system and I want them to easily read the log files in /var/log/httpd without needing root access. I set the read permission for 'other' users but when I run tail on the log files I get permission denied:

[root@ourserver httpd]# chmod -R go+r /var/log/httpd
[root@ourserver httpd]# ls -la
drwxr--r--  13 root root 4096 Oct 25 03:31 .
drwxr-xr-x.  6 root root 4096 Oct 20 03:24 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Oct 20 03:24 oursite.com
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Oct 20 03:24 oursite2.com
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    0 May  7 03:46 access_log
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 3446 Oct 24 22:05 error_log

[me@ourserver ~]$ tail -f /var/log/httpd/oursite.com/error.log
tail: cannot open `/var/log/httpd/oursite/error.log' for reading: Permission denied

Maybe I'm missing something on how permissions work but I'm not finding any easy answers on it.

Solution 1:

Directories (like /var/log/httpd) require both read and execute permissions in order to be traversed. So when you add "r" to the directory, it only allows the world to see the contents, but not to enter into it and continue into other directories.

Try chmod -R go+rX /var/log/httpd