Changing Subdomain webroot Problems

[KingsleyM]

Hi all,

I've been trying to change the webroot folder of one of my subdomains and so far I've only achieved lots of stress and frustration.

I am running:
Parallels Plesk Panel version 9.2.2
Operating system Linux 2.6.27.29-0.1-default
CPU AuthenticAMD, Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1212 HE
Average load 0.08; 0.04; 0.01

My subdomain structure at present looks like this:

<main_domain>/subdomains/<subdomain>/httpdocs/

What I would like is:

<main_domain>/subdomains/<subdomain>/httpdocs/public

so that public is my new webroot folder, so I can have a /system/ folder that holds my site config/settings files outside the root.

I've already done the following:
1. Created a vhost.conf file in the conf folder of my subdomain
2. Ran the following command '/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u --vhost-name=domain.com'
3. Checked to see that the vhost was linked in http.include.
4. Restarted apache via the Plesk Panel

I've tried various syntax within my vhost.conf file, the latest being:

DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/<main_domain>/subdomains</subdomain>/httpdocs/public
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/<main_domain>/subdomains/</subdomain>/httpdocs>
php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/vhosts/<main_domain>/subdomains/</subdomain>/httpdocs/public:/tmp"
php_admin_value safe_mode off
Allowoverride All
</Directory>

Which results in the following error log when I try and navigate to the subdomain:

[error] [client xxx.xxx.xxxxxx] client denied by server configuration: /var/www

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction with this, or perhaps even give me a better solution.

Thanks In Advance to anyone who can help!

- Kingsley