I was able to correct some of my issues by manually created a few directories that seemed to be missing, the odd thing is, the apache user has rights to everything so not sure why it never was able to create the deleted directory, or if it was missing in the install.
Needless to say, the aliasMatch seems to still be messing up my mod_rewrite rules on specific media pages. It seems unable to find /{sub-dir}/media/{slug from media page}.
The only error I'm receiving in the error logs is the inability to find videos.css in {mediacore-install}/mediacore/public/admin/styles which doesnt seem to have been in my 0.8rc2 download??
I went through the wsgi instructions a few more times, everything seems to be correct, is there anyway I can even get to the specific media page, to see what the pattern is?
[EDIT] Noticed also that urls built off the slug, like rating, dont work either. I'm very confused, as looking at other installs and the demo, the mod_rewrite that builds the url is the same.