A simple way to display a Linux file tree please!!!

[Patrick du Boucher]

What I am looking for is super simple..... and yet I appear to be super
stuck!


On a red-hat (to which I am new-ish) system, I want to publish a folder 
/var/pagoda to a web-browser. Nothing fancy.... purely for file access and
browsing.

Something similar to the "Index of /pub" type websites is perfect.



I have already a httpd service running.....

The "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Test Page" is displayed when the machine's ip
adress is entered in a browser.


sounds great.....

and this is where the problems start.


I've tried adding empty index.html files to /var/www/html/ but nothing (test
page is still loaded).

I've tried changing the DocumentRoot path in /etc/httpd/conf.d to
"/var/pagoda" (and adding index.html there)

but now http://<ip.address>/index.html now gives me
---------------
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an
ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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so before I try to mess with file permissions and configurations..... I was
hoping some enlightened soul my shed some wisdom!!!


Thanks in advance!

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