apache2 vhost going to wrong webroot - apache2

Question

All of my vhosts are being sunk into the first available webroot and not their assigned webroot except for my second which is just going wild.
if I try and access ipv6mailer.com I watch the hit live go ->
[error] [client 24.184.110.39] script not found or unable to stat: /home/downlowd/www/login-form.php
True, that file does 'not' exist. it should be looking in /home/ipv6mailer/www
I have 3 vhosts and two are going to /home/downlwd/www and ignoring ServerName completely.
If I comment our downlowd.com, the log output try to access ipv6mailer.com looks like ->
[Wed Aug 21 15:23:12 2013] [crit] [client 24.184.110.39] (13)Permission denied: /home/wemail1/www/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
It's going to the 'new' default and not ServerName
# Virtual Hosts
#
# If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#<IfDefine DEFAULT_VHOST>
# see bug #178966 why this is in here
# Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or
# ports, instead of the default. See also the <VirtualHost>
# directive.
#
# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to
# prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses.
#
#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
Listen 80
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
NameVirtualHost *:80
# When virtual hosts are enabled, the main host defined in the default
# httpd.conf configuration will go away. We redefine it here so that it is
# still available.
#
# If you disable this vhost by removing -D DEFAULT_VHOST from
# /etc/conf.d/apache2, the first defined virtual host elsewhere will be
# the default.
# vim: ts=4 filetype=apache
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.downlowd.com
ServerAlias downlowd.com *.downlowd.com
ServerPath /downlowd.com
DocumentRoot /home/downlowd/www
<Directory "/home/downlowd/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
AddHandler cgi-script .php .php4 .php3
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.wemail1.com
ServerAlias wemail1.com *.wemail1.com
ServerPath /wemail1.com
DocumentRoot /home/wemail1/www
<Directory "/home/wemail1/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.ipv6mailer.com
ServerAlias ipv6mailer *.ipv6mailer.com
ServerPath /ipv6mailer
DocumentRoot /home/ipv6mailer/www
<Directory "/home/ipv6mailer/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
dev-box-201 www # /usr/sbin/apache2 -S
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using dev-box-201.nyctelecomm.com for ServerName
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server www.downlowd.com (/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf:42)
port 80 namevhost www.downlowd.com (/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf:42)
port 80 namevhost www.wemail1.com (/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf:58)
port 80 namevhost www.ipv6mailer.com (/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf:71)
Syntax OK

Answer 1

The user apache is running as (www-data?) needs search permission (+x on a dir) for every path between / and the file you're serving, if that directory has an effective value of AllowOverride != none (IOW, if Apache is configured to look for htaccess there).