Domain shows 403 error after using Move Domain feature: Forbidden You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

Symptoms

• Domain example2.com shows the following error message after moving it to another subscription (example.com) in Domains > example2.com > Move Domain:

  403 Forbidden
  You don't have permission to access / on this server.
  Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

• The following error appears in Domains > example2.com > Logs:

  [core:crit] (13)Permission denied: AH00529:/var/www/vhosts/example.com/example2.com/httpdocs/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable and that '/var/www/vhosts/example.com/example2.com/httpdocs/' is executable, referer: https://example2.com/

• Repairing permissions for example2.com shows:

  There is incorrect ownership on some items in the WWW root directory of the domain 'example2.com' ........................................... [ERROR]
  - Incorrect group of /var/www/vhosts/example.com/example2.com/httpdocs:
  expected is psaserv (1002), actual is psacln (1003)

• The ownership of the httpdocs folder got changed after moving:

  # ls -ld /var/www/vhosts/example.com/example2.com/httpdocs/
  drwxr-x--- 2 user psacln 4096 Sep 2 09:16 /var/www/vhosts/example.com/example2.com/httpdocs/

  Note: The psaserv group is expected instead of psacln.

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