403 code on Virtual Hosts in Apache2

Aloha everyone,

we are building another webserver that has OS X server installed and
darwinports. installed php5 mysql4 apache2. we activate the include of
httpd-vhosts.conf in the main httpd.conf file. It loads the includes in
there to our virtual sites.

we  hit the virtual hosts with a browser and get the wonderful 403 code.
forbidden.

we checked permissions and tried all kinds of tweaks between the virtual
host tags but to no avail. only our first virtual host is able to serve up
pages. anyone got any ideas?

thanks in advance
chris