virtually hosted typo3 site returns a 503 after backend logout - virtualhost

Question

I am trying to host multiple typo3 managed sites on my remote webserver but whenever I logout from a brand new install I get a 503 error and can't get past that. but I can re-install a typo3 site from the same link. but the default typo3 installed which can be referenced via <www.mydomain_name.com/typotest> works fine. below is my default site setup:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /srv/www/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
<Directory /srv/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
############### All other demo sites ################
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /srv/www/site1/
ServerName www.site1.typotest.net
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
<Directory /srv/www/WFS>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
#ErrorLog ${APACHE_VHOST_LOG_DIR}/site1/error.log
#Loglevel warn
#CustomLog ${APACHE_VHOST_LOG_DIR}/site1/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
######## Site2 ########
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /srv/www/site2/
ServerName www.site2.typotest.net
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
<Directory /srv/www/Monassier>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
#ErrorLog ${APACHE_VHOST_LOG_DIR}/site2/error.log
#Loglevel warn
#CustomLog ${APACHE_VHOST_LOG_DIR}/site2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
######## site 3 ########
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /srv/www/site3/
ServerName www.site3.typotest.net
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
<Directory /srv/www/HandP>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
#ErrorLog ${APACHE_VHOST_LOG_DIR}/site3/error.log
#Loglevel warn
#CustomLog ${APACHE_VHOST_LOG_DIR}/site3/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
I will also say that I tried copying the .htaccess from the working site to the virtually hosted site but got no results. At this point I am at a loss as to what could be causing this.
Server OS is Debian Lenny and apache 2.2.16.
I would like to add that I have checked the error logs (php ones included) and all I see are access errors

Answer 1

As you are not getting a Apache error log entry, I presume you have got the maintanence mode enabled.
Check your localconf.php for the entry:
$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS'][BE][adminOnly] = 1;
and change it to
$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS'][BE][adminOnly] = 0;

Answer 2

Slight misunderstanding of the framework caused this. It turns out that I had installed a blank package instead of the introduction package. So I was getting the 503 due to there not being any frontend pages created in the blank, and I was trying to access the backend via the front end address.