Need help setting up Apache on CentOS 5.5 , getting 403

I have purchased a VPS and I have done everything described here (version 2.2.17) : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/install.html

I have apache running, but I can not view the page in browser. Chrome says : Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to ... and when I

lynx localhost

I get

[error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied

I tried chmod 744 htdocs/index.html but still nothing.

Apache is running httpd (pid 7638) already running

And here is the conf/httpd.conf file https://gist.github开发者_Python百科.com/875352

Any help is appreciated, thanks

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Make sure all directories up to and including your htdocs directory have public read. :)