Not displaying images/css

Question

I am running apache2 with tomcat5 on a redhat linux box. I am trying to setup virtual hosts to serve. When I try to use my test.benefitserver.com virtual host, the images, css, etc files that apache serves don't display. My images, css & html files are placed in the DocumentRoot directory under a /benefitserver subdirectory. I have chown <username>:apache and have chmod 755 and it doesn't help. I have also tried <username>:tomcat and <username>:users on the chown and that didn't work either. My url is https://test.benefitserver.com/benefitserver/index.jsp and I get the red x boxes for my images. I'm using relative paths on my files so I know that its not the cause. I need this to work with SSL. PLEASE HELP! I'm at my wits end!
Here's my /etc/hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
69.155.252.166  test.yoursummit.com
69.155.252.166  test.benefitserver.comHere is my hpttpd.conf snippet:
Listen 69.155.252.166:80
Listen 127.0.0.1:80
NameVirtualHost 69.155.252.166
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.htm index.jsp
AccessFileName .htaccess
<Directory>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /benefitserver>
    Options Indexes
    <IfDefine SSL>
        SSLRequireSSL
        SSLOptions +StdEnvVars +ExportCertData +StrictRequire
        SSLVerifyClient require
        SSLVerifyDepth 1
    </IfDefine>
</Directory>
<VirtualHost test.yoursummit.com>
    ServerName test.yoursummit.com
        ServerAlias 69.155.252.166
        ServerAlias localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    ErrorLog /var/www/yoursummit/logs/errorlog
    CustomLog /var/www/yoursummit/logs/access_log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost test.benefitserver.com>
    ServerName test.benefitserver.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    ErrorLog /var/www/html/logs/testbs_errorlog
    CustomLog /var/www/html/logs/testbs_access_log common
</VirtualHost>

Answer 1

my question is along the same lines of this thread, however the specific problem i am having is that i have mod_jk set up to serve a folder
JkMount /nwhc/*
JkMount /nwhc
however it serves only the jsp pages from the main folder, any of the nested folders it seems like apache is picking up and just displaying the JSP code! why doesn't the asterisk take care of that? i thought maybe JkOptions +ForwardDirectories might work but it didn't either.  does anyone know how to solve this?  we are running an older version of mod_jk which requires a workers2.properties file in the apache conf folder, as well as the mod_jk.properties in tomcat.  they both have the above directive to push the folder to tomcat, but like i said, it doesn't work with any nested folders and their associated jsp files.