Alias /willberg "/srv/www/htdocs/" Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride AuthConfig Order allow,deny Allow from all directory listing from dir outside docroot: [root@xosdev1 httpd]# ls -al /srv/www total 24 drwxr-xr-x 3 apache apache 4096 Feb 8 10:16 . drwxr-xr-x 3 apache apache 4096 Feb 8 10:16 .. drwxrwxrwx 10 apache apache 4096 Feb 8 10:31 htdocs the above was just chmod -R 777 /srv and chown -R apache.apache /srv to see if that would help. have already changed it back. either way it doesn't work.