I have a virtual host setup for documentation.domain.com. The it seems that the website html and js load fine. But the website refers to it's images in ../icons/image.gif (the html are in a /html dir).

I'm getting 404 Forbidden errors. Looking at the apache error log, it's trying to do lookups in /usr/share/apache2/icons, instead of docroot/icons/image.gif. I have no clue why it would do that. All references in this vhost to the docroot are pointing to the right place. docroot/html/foo.html loads fine, but docroot/icons/image.gif does not. All dir permissions are 755, and the files themselves are 644.

Any idea why this vhost is trying to do these lookups in the apache docroot instead of the vhost docroot?

I'm using Apache2 2.0.49, on a Suse 9.1 box.

EDIT

To further clarify, in my error log I see this:

client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/apache2/icons/image.gif

Even though the docroot for the vhost is

/home/vhosts/documentation.domain.com/

And I'm trying to load

/home/vhosts/documentation.domain.com/icons/image.gif

I guess that this happens because there is the default Alias directivein you httpd.conf. You can comment it if you don't need it, or use it inside your default host's configuration.