Apache Web Server question

[Jay Kelly <neutec@debiandomain.com>]

Hello Group,
Im running apache and have /var/www as the root directory. I wanted
to add another folder so I added var/www/file and when I try to 
access html from the directory I get access denied. I looked in 
the apachpe error.log and see Permission denied: file permission deny
server access: /var/www/files/download.htm.

So how do I add folders and set the permission to allow web access? 
thanks Jay

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