i know nothing

[captain spanky]

I'm wanting to stick a load of stuff on my site and have it come up as a list of files but i'm having issues...
I was thinking that i would just need to create a folder in my webspace (for example: a folder called 'ahole' in my site 'higg.co.uk' and then shove all the files in there and then when directed to www.higg.co.uk/ahole/ the list of files would appear. but instead i get an access forbidden error. How do i get around this?
just by making a html page, typing out everything in the folder and linking seperatley to each?


ack... i know so little about the world

[(brackets)]

Try making an index page in the folder

yoursite/folder/index.html

[captain spanky]

but wouldn't i have to list all the contents of the folder on that index page.. and then add hyperlinks to them all individually?

imagine i've got 100 files... some jpgs, some gifs, some pdfs and some other files (like word or something) and i wanted for them all to show up as a list in the browser similar to when you open a folder window in the finder. So the user can just scroll through the list and download any file they please... is there no easy way of doing that?

[PersonasBinar]

Do you need to put it in a public folder? I suppose it might depend on how the hosting is set up. Adding a directory to your site shouldn't be a big deal.